Those desperate to prove their masculinity are out of options
What has happened to literature’s manly men? Hemingway, arguably the most masculine of writers, ran repeatedly toward danger throughout his life — along with any other intense experience he could find. This done, he’d write about it: both fiction and nonfiction, covering “manly” topics such as hitmen, boxing, fishing, hunting, bullfighting, racing and extreme sports.
War, the subject of Hemingway’s two most famous books, is perhaps the quintessential subject of such manly writing…
