Alex Bilmes

2 months ago | esquiresg.com | Alex Bilmes |Wayne Cheong

For as long as I’ve been doing this job I’ve been asked to comment on the supposed crisis in masculinity, as if the editor of a glossy men’s style magazine devoted to fast cars and fancy watches and posh restaurants might have some special insight into this sort of thing. And, because I have no special insight into this sort of thing, for the most part I’ve blithely dismissed it as media scaremongering. Crisis? What crisis?

2 months ago | yahoo.com | Alex Bilmes

For as long as I’ve been doing this job I’ve been asked to comment on the supposed crisis in masculinity, as if the editor of a glossy men’s style magazine devoted to fast cars and fancy watches and posh restaurants might have some special insight into this sort of thing. And, because I have no special insight into this sort of thing, for the most part I’ve blithely dismissed it as media scaremongering. Crisis? What crisis?

2 months ago | esquire.com | Alex Bilmes

For as long as I’ve been doing this job I’ve been asked to comment on the supposed crisis in masculinity, as if the editor of a glossy men’s style magazine devoted to fast cars and fancy watches and posh restaurants might have some special insight into this sort of thing. And, because I have no special insight into this sort of thing, for the most part I’ve blithely dismissed it as media scaremongering. Crisis? What crisis?

2 months ago | msn.com | Alex Bilmes

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2 months ago | esquire.com | Alex Bilmes

Writing in the New Statesman recently, Jason Cowley lamented the sharp decline in prominence and influence of the literary novel over the past decades. He drew a comparison between the works of fiction shortlisted for the most recent Booker Prize, and those competing in 1997, when he was one of the judges, and Arundhati Roy won for her international bestseller, The God of Small Things.