Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Major girl crush

on Kay Hymowitz, who has a great piece in City Journal about the globalization of the single young female.

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

The newest age of man: fluid post-adolescence

Brooks calls this "odyssey", which I don't like very much, but I suppose it does need a name.

He suggests that with time, this new generational structure will "solidify." I'm not so sure.

Costly Sons

Males---sons, fathers, and grandfathers---are costly and risky, here.

Monday, October 8, 2007

Darwin the novelist

Male imagination and desire, married: review of Philip Roth's Exit Ghost here.

Thursday, October 4, 2007

Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Minivan on the serengetti

You can take the human out of the savannah, but you can't take the savannah out of the human. Here.

Hitchens on Roth

Short version: DO NOT WANT. Here.

Hitchens is a lunatic on religion, but on so many other topics he's right on. This confuses me.