book-review

Books About the ‘Boy Crisis’ Are a Big Business. But Do They Actually Help?

Parents are buying up manuals for raising non-toxic young men, but the message on masculinity is confusing at best

The Last Gasp of the Gen X Nerd Kings

A crappy sequel book and a disgraced genre director are signs of a very specific type of guy and so-called generational voice on the way out

The Hidden Truth and Enduring Appeal of Magic

A professor’s mammoth history of wizardry argues that it has a role to play alongside science and religion

Charlie Kaufman, Screen Maestro of Male Self-Loathing, Tries It on the Page

In ‘Antkind,’ the acclaimed screenwriter and director traps us with an unlikeable man for longer than a film ever could