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The Legion Lonely

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands June 28, 2021October 19, 2022

“For all these reasons—the socialization we receive as kids, as well as emotional restraint, homophobia, experiences of betrayal, and many others—many men stop confiding in each other, trusting each other, supporting each other, and expressing emotion around each other.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

My Mustache, My Self

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands October 14, 2020October 19, 2022

A quarantine facial-hair experiment led Wesley Morris to consider his Blackness, maleness, and self.

Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Story

Checking in on the Masculinity Crisis

by Kelli María Korducki December 3, 2019December 30, 2022

If masculinity really is in crisis — and that’s a big if — we should at least be able to agree that it’s not women’s responsibility to fix it.

Posted inBooks, Crime, Culture, Fiction, Story

Memories Dressed Up With Wishes

by Grace Linden July 31, 2019October 19, 2022

Siri Hustvedt’s “Memories of the Future” is a fitting book for the #MeToo moment, which is as much about justice and reparations as it is about understanding the logic of memory.

Posted inBooks, Commentary, Uncategorized

This Month In Books: ‘You Talk a Lot Don’t You?’

by Dana Snitzky July 17, 2019October 19, 2022

This month’s books newsletter is pretty chatty for a topic that’s supposedly the pastime of introverts!

Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story

A Woman In Love Is a Woman Alone

by Francesca Giacco July 12, 2019October 19, 2022

On the profound loneliness of female desire in Lisa Taddeo’s “Three Women.”

Posted inCulture, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story

The Shames of Men

by Don Kulick June 26, 2019October 19, 2022

An anthropologist on a return visit to a remote village in Papua New Guinea learns that all the village’s young men are terribly wounded.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Featured, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women

The Psychiatrist in My Writing Class and His ‘Gift’ of Hate

by Rani Neutill May 20, 2019October 19, 2022

Rani Neutill recalls a literary workshop in which a white man critiqued her ability to write in “proper” English.

Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Featured, Nonfiction, Unapologetic Women

The Psychiatrist in My Writing Class and His ‘Gift’ of Hate

by Rani Neutill May 20, 2019October 19, 2022

Rani Neutill recalls a literary workshop in which a white man critiqued her ability to write in “proper” English.

Posted inHighlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

A Fascinating Case of Precocious Puberty

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands January 25, 2019October 19, 2022

Patrick Burleigh carried an extremely rare genetic mutation, which brought on puberty prematurely.

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