While charity begins at home, fascism’s always partial to country clubs.
What Kind of Man? Jerry Seinfeld as Cause and Symptom
Seinfeld, and the macho men he invokes, exist in such rarefied, privileged places that there’s never any cause for caution, never a need to rethink or apologize.
Seinfeld, and the macho men he invokes, exist in such rarefied, privileged places that there’s never any cause for caution, never a need to rethink or apologize.
‘Now’s the Time’: Until We See the Problem Clearly and Realize It’s Us, Why Should We Expect Anything to Change?
Exclusive first-look story from the newly-released collection "This Kind of Man" by Sean Murphy
Exclusive first-look story from the newly-released collection “This Kind of Man” by Sean Murphy
Sentimental Education
It isn’t only what you hear that brings you back—recalling the things you saw, heard, smelled, felt.
It isn’t only what you hear that brings you back—recalling the things you saw, heard, smelled, felt.
Does It Mean I’m Woke
Talking S.
Talking S.
A Middle-Aged Boy Mourns His Mother
If men ultimately succeed in burning this earth, all our mothers will weep to drown the fire,
If men ultimately succeed in burning this earth, all our mothers will weep to drown the fire,
Dinner at My Old Man’s Favorite Old School Restaurant
An Ode to Borkum Riff Tobacco
An Ode to Borkum Riff Tobacco
A Fearsome Love
The Ways My Wife Tells Me
The Ways My Wife Tells Me
Unsentimental Nostalgia
Ivory Liquid and Minor League by Sean Murphy
Ivory Liquid and Minor League by Sean Murphy
Adulting: On Putting Away Childish Things
When, exactly, does a boy become a man?
When, exactly, does a boy become a man?
Me Three
I know how bad it is because I know how bad I was.
I know how bad it is because I know how bad I was.
Chickens
What young boy has never been hunted by another, heeding a half-formed compulsion to kill or be killed, playground style?
What young boy has never been hunted by another, heeding a half-formed compulsion to kill or be killed, playground style?
Jake LaMotta’s Rage
Broken down and no longer especially useful, bruised fists soaking in filthy ice, scarred eyes surveying the opposite corner of an empty ring, they’re put out to pasture but not out of their misery.
Broken down and no longer especially useful, bruised fists soaking in filthy ice, scarred eyes surveying the opposite corner of an empty ring, they’re put out to pasture but not out of their misery.
Can Your Family Afford to Lose You?
Nobody’s worth nothing dead.
Nobody’s worth nothing dead.
Drunk White Dudes Fighting
It’s anti-ballet, performance art with nothing approaching production value.
It’s anti-ballet, performance art with nothing approaching production value.
The things prepping for a colonoscopy procedure prepares you for
Even if you’re lucky longer than you have any right or intention of being, the end of one’s life is a menu of unsavory options.
Even if you’re lucky longer than you have any right or intention of being, the end of one’s life is a menu of unsavory options.