David Shields's The Trouble with Men: Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power is an immersion into the perils, limits, and possibilities of human intimacy. All at once a love letter to his wife, a nervy reckoning with his own fallibility,...
Blending confessional criticism and cultural autobiography, David Shields explores the power of literature to make life survivable, maybe even endurable. Evoking his deeply divided personality, his character flaws, his woes, his...
Explores how, in a predominantly black sport, white fans think about and talk about black heroes, black scapegoats, and black bodies. This book was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN USA Award and it was named one of the...