Twenty-nine-year-old Lily* has, sadly, fallen foul of such posers on numerous occasions. She says she once clocked a male colleague at her co-working space bringing in a “stack” of books to use as ...

The online literary wars rage on, with faulty arguments and inconsistent narratives. In an age dominated by short-form “BookTok” content, the New York Times, in a recent article, suggested that the ...

“I think that literature is serious, if not more serious, than nonfiction. You learn just as much. I think that the world is lacking in empathy and that guys can benefit from literature.” Photo: ...

Men are, apparently, reading less, at least according to a plethora of headlines over the past few months and years. Several frequently cited statistics are a few years old now, with one of the most ...

It was one of the most erotic things I ever heard. A man I know said he was reading all the novels of Jane Austen in one summer. At first, I figured he was pretending to like things that women like to ...

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Meet the new performative male, now the current subject of online mockery. He’s carrying a Daunt Books tote bag, there’s a copy of Intermezzo by Sally Rooney in his back pocket, and he’s walking his ...