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Essay: 9 Fictional Friendships that Explore Male Intimacy - From Bolaño’s poets to Beatty’s teenagers, men in fiction often get more emotional freedom than the real world allows

Essay: 9 Fictional Friendships that Explore Male Intimacy - From Bolaño’s poets to Beatty’s teenagers, men in fiction often get more emotional freedom than the real world allows | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
While constructed masculinity often represses conversations about the intensity, messiness, and vulnerability of male friendships, many novels and stories display men behaving together in ways the…
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Nonfiction: 'Hannah Arendt’s Female Friends' by Kathleen B. Jones

Nonfiction: 'Hannah Arendt’s Female Friends' by Kathleen B. Jones | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
Hannah Arendt and the kinds of friendship. (Hannah Arendt’s Female Friends | http://t.co/3nDFPRnZa2 On my to read list!)
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Sister act: female friendship in fiction from Woolf to Ferrante and Zadie Smith

Sister act: female friendship in fiction from Woolf to Ferrante and Zadie Smith | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
Forget wives and mothers, the heroines of new books by Deborah Levy, Emma Cline and Zadie Smith are defined by the other women in their lives
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