Max Dickins

Interesting piece on the link between (male) loneliness and violence.

Nice piece from Ireland featuring Billy No Mates mates.

Interesting piece on male infertility '[H]e tentatively tried to confide in a couple of friends. “It was either washed over with humour or the subject was quickly changed, so I kept to myself about it. I stopped socialising, I became very depressed.'

Perfect acting, beautiful cinematography, a script that melds the poetry of absence with slaps of dark comedy. Martin McDonaghs’s The Banshees Of Inisherin is one of the best portrayals of male friendship and mental health I’ve seen on the screen. 🧵

Thank you to @KasiaLDelgado for such a thoughtful piece.

This is a great thread on male isolation.

Really well written piece. I'm glad to see the nuance if the male social style expressed so cogently. 'Whilst fishing was Whitehouse’s pretext, the real agenda was to take Mortimer out of the house, to pull him back into the world.' Yes! Men need a REASON to get together.

The Atlantic, and especially the journalist Julie Beck, have done some brilliant writing on friendship. And this piece is another.