![]() They advertise their outsized masculinity, donning lumbersexual costumes and holding axe-throwing competitions.ĭavidson is an acclaimed literary novelist whose triumphs include a spot on the Giller shortlist and a Golden Globe–nominated adaptation of his first book, Rust and Bone, starring Marion Cotillard. They form men’s rights organizations and fight for the freedom to manspread on the subway. In response, so-called Manly Men are at pains to assert their continued relevance. We live in an era when rape culture and mansplaining are at the centre of the social commentary male-dominated fields like manufacturing and construction have shrivelled into oblivion and, for the first time in history, expectant parents around the globe might be more likely to yearn for a daughter than a son. ![]() And while he writes with the chest-beating vigour of Hemingway and Bukowski, the literary landscape has transformed since the days of those particular he-men. ![]() ![]() His prose is hefty, kinetically charged and, on occasion, absolutely disgusting. Keeler | Photograph by Daniel EhrenworthĬraig Davidson’s fiction is a kind of literary man cave: in every book, he cracks open a space to examine the guyest of guy stuff. ![]()
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