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