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Between Words

Anne Carson’s new book-without-a-spine, and the spiritual experience of centrelessness

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

A postmodern elegy from our most original writer

Boredom as a Political Weapon

Saul Bellow fought banality—and taught us to look hard at the world

Jack Urwin

Jack Urwin is a journalist and humour writer whose work has appeared in the Guardian, McSweeney’s and Vice. His first book, Man Up: Surviving Modern Masculinity, was published in 2016.

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The Brute Within

Masculinity’s trap and the future of men May 2018
What’s wrong with modern men? Depending on whom you ask, this is a question that can yield wildly different answers. On one side is a crisis in masculinity marked by the sexual impropriety of the kinds highlighted by the #MeToo movement; by campaigns of harassment against women such as Gamergate’s—for daring to exist in spaces some men consider their sole…