In a sharp new book, Jessa Crispin uses the actor’s career to explore, and complicate, the “crisis of masculinity.” By Alexandra Jacobs When you purchase an independently reviewed book ...

In her new book, What Is Wrong with Men: Patriarchy, the Crisis of Masculinity, and How (Of Course) Michael Douglas Films Explain Everything, feminist author Jessa Crispin explores the crisis ...

by Jessa Crispin, From What Is Wrong with Men, a study of how portrayals of the American man have changed in films starring Michael Douglas, which will be published next month by Pantheon. wall street ...

Michael Douglas. From the Archive. Timeless stories from our 175-year archive handpicked to speak to the news of the day. ... Thanks for signing up! Role Models. by Jessa Crispin, From What Is Wrong ...

Jessa Crispin. Pantheon, $27 (288p) ISBN 978-0-593-31762-4. Cultural critic Crispin (My Three Dads) offers an uneven examination of American masculinity by way of Michael Douglas’s filmography.

Jessa Crispin. Feminism, Film. September 2, 2020 ... or marrying her real life partner Michael Douglas, twenty-five years her elder. This age gap coupling is also a reality; around 30 percent of ...

Despite rejecting her childhood upbringing decades ago, Jessa Crispin has found herself needing to confront some old ghosts. As far as she may have run from her Kansas hometown—to New York City ...

In the beginning of the bookish Internet, Jessa Crispin made waves with her irreverent online literary magazine, “Bookslut.” She’s gone on to publish another magazine, “Spolia,” as well ...

Jessa Crispin, read by Amy McFadden. Tantor Audio, , unabridged, 5 CDs, 8.5 hrs., $32.99 ISBN 978-1-5159-0399-4 In this unusual and absorbing travelogue, Crispin pursues some of her favorite dead ...

Novelist Michael Upchurch (“Passive Intruder”) is the former staff book critic for The Seattle Times. “The Dead Ladies Project” By Jessa Crispin, University of Chicago, 240 pages, $16 ...

Jessa Crispin's collection of personal essays about creative people and European cities is hard to categorize. It is bold, amusingly self-deprecating, desperate and adventurous and, at times ...