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Something Amis

by Rachel Cusk,

From the introduction to a reissue of Martin Amis’s novel London Fields, which was published in November by Vintage, in Britain. The curse of Englishness is something whose magnitude we…

Men at Work

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Barrett Swanson

Beyond a primal scream: the problems with trying to solve the problem of toxic masculinity

Men at Work

by Barrett Swanson,

Is there a masculine cure for toxic masculinity?

Facing the Furies

by Rebecca Solnit,

In 1979, a catchy Kenny Rogers song called “Coward of the County” made it to the top of the country charts. It’s about a man named Tommy, whose father, a…