Eric Jarosinski bookmarks "Mythologies" by Roland Barthes.More
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Sarah Lewis bookmarks "The Power of Myth" by Joseph Campbell.More
Nic Pizzolatto bookmarks "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner.More
Poet Billy Collins bookmarks "The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst."More
The author of "Blood Will Out" recommends Charles Portis' comic tale of a hapless Southerner on the hunt for the wife who done him wrong.More
Karen Joy Fowler bookmarks "Dazzle of Day" by Molly Gloss.More
Novelist Richard Powers bookmarks "Objects and Empathy" by Arthur Saltzman.More
Hanan Al-Shaykh bookmarks "Season of Migration to the North" by Tayeb Salih.More
Jonathan Lethem bookmarks "Kafka Was the Rage" by Anatole Broyard.More
Composer William Brittelle's music crosses so many boundaries, it's hard to categorize.More
Author Yiyun Li on leaving behind her health and native language to write.More
John Waters might not be an ideal role model— so why let him give a commencement address?More
Novelist Hari Kunzru on the line between cultural appreciation and appropriation.More
The father of the men’s rights movement is Warren Farrell, author of the core text of the movement, “The Myth of Male Power.” Steve Paulson sat down with Farrell for a candid talk about men’s rights and masculinity in America.More
Hip hop artist and poet Kyle “Guante” Tran Myhre has his own set of responses to being told to man up. Ten to be exact. More
Michael Rohrbaugh's short film “American Male” portrays the pitfalls of hyper-masculinity with a punch.More
When Ashanti Branch first started teaching, he noticed that a lot of boys at his school were kind of checked out, absent and not on track to graduate. He decided to push them to take off the "male mask."More