Men's discourses of depression

By Dariusz Galasinski

The blue guitar

By John Banville

Oliver Orme used to be a painter, well known and well rewarded, but the muse has deserted him. He is also, as he confesses, a thief; he does not steal for gain, but for the thrill of possession, th...

Sleeping with soldiers

By Rosemary Daniell

The Flash Press

By Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, Timothy J. Gilfoyle, Patricia Cline Cohen, American Antiquarian Society.

Of beards and men

By Christopher Oldstone Moore

"This fascinating and erudite history of facial hair cracks the masculine hair code, shedding light on the choices men make as they shape the hair on their faces. Oldstone-Moore adeptly lays to res...

The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York

By Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, Timothy J. Gilfoyle, Patricia Cline Cohen, American Antiquarian Society.

Xy

By Elisabeth Badinter

Drawing on biological examples, historical and sociological analyses, fiction, and biography, Elisabath Badinter offers a groundbreaking account of the new man, which our century is in the process...

XY: On Masculine Identity

By Elisabeth Badinter

Why men lie

By Linden MacIntyre

This latest novel from Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Linden MacIntyre, Why Men Lie, offers a moving and emotionally complex conclusion to the Cape Breton trilogy. Two years after the events of The...

The Trials of Masculinity: Policing Sexual Boundaries, 1870-1930

By Angus McLaren

How do we define the question, "What makes a man?" and why are we compelled to define the term at all? Modern perceptions of masculinity, despite the sense of naturalness and constancy with which w...