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Spring 2024

Issue 32

The annotated table of contents below offers a sneak peek at what's in Issue 32.


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Letter

On the Crisis of Men

By

On a Saturday morning this winter, while my wife trained for a half-marathon, I was tasked with taking our eighteen-month-old daughter to the neighborhood synagogue for “Shabbat for Tots.”


 

Essays

Blighted Horizons

By

Today the day-care wars no longer take the form of hallucinogenic news segments and sensationalized tabloid stories. They are quieter, mostly dignified and often subterranean.


Autobiography of Influence

By

Yes! I thought as I read U and I, feeling my mischievous, troll instincts emerge: I could do what Baker did with Updike, but with Baker.


Doom Scroll

By

Let’s say it while there’s still time: Jorie Graham is our most important living poet. “Our” being readers of American English; the time being late, […]


 

Symposium

The Failed Man

By

I take a deep breath and press play on Season Three, Episode Thirteen of NBC’s Emmy Award-winning sitcom Frasier (1993-2004).


Battlefield Ecstasies

By

Is it twisted that her first name means “manhood”? Andrea Dworkin, the legendary feminist, said she believed in men’s “humanity, against all the evidence.” And I believe her.


Strength Training

By

Some time ago, I was in a hotel room, scrolling my phone, and enraged, as usual, at my body.


Searchers

By

A while before I saw Joe Rogan do stand-up in Denver, I organized a bachelor party in nearby Boulder.


Fear of Fashion

By

On the internet today, discussions about men’s fashion flourish in every digital corner about practically every imaginable aesthetic.


God Save the Top

By

Some gay men come out twice. First as gay, then as bottoms.


 

Survey

Manhood

By

This winter we surveyed hundreds of people—of all genders—about what they think men are for.


 

Reviews

DIY

By

Not all the time, but sometimes, early in the morning, dawn just breaking, my car goes bling-blong and the passenger airbag indicator glows on the dashboard. 


The Zone of Interest

By

If somehow you were to wander into a screening of Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest (2023) without knowing what you were getting into, it might take about ten minutes to figure things out.


Traces of Iman Mersal

By

She has perfected a form of autobiographical and biographical writing that combines exposure and elision, rescue and renunciation.