Steve Biddulph (editor): Stories Of Manhood

Finch

$29.95

Biddulph is well-known to New Zealand men interested in the concept of gender and what it means to be a man in today's world.

Previous titles Manhood and Raising Boys were bestsellers and for a brief time were synonymous with debate about the new masculinity.

This collection of pieces, many previously published, brings in other voices, though the quality is erratic.

Leo Schofield journalist and arts festival supremo, provides the grisly tale of his abuse at the Christian Brothers School in Sydney, chilling in its matter-of-factness. Bill Bryson's piece is a newspaper column that should have remained there.

Simon Carr and cartoonist Michael Leunig provide interludes that will stand the passing of trends.