The Legend of Yu Fei
Essay by Ethan McGuire | Only a few years after his death, Yue Fei’s legend elevated him to the status of a hero in myth
read moreEssay by Ethan McGuire | Only a few years after his death, Yue Fei’s legend elevated him to the status of a hero in myth
read moreClassic Essay by Friedrich Nietzsche | Oh, the fatal curiosity of the philosopher, who longs, just once, to peer out and down through a crack in the chamber of consciousness
read moreFiction by Arbogast | The special agent for the Society of Gentlemen Geographers was ready for the case to end. He had been tracking the theft of the crimson scarab ever since it had been purloined at a party put on by the Society in Cairo
read moreFilm Review by Dane MH | The vast majority of “heroes” in modern media are subversive takes on the traditional hero archetype. The irreverent and quippy Marvel hero, the reluctant and brooding scoundrel—there are few protagonists who don’t have a slew of unheroic traits
read moreBook Extract by Chris Waldburger | The snake is primordial fear. This creature of cylindrical muscle, with no arms and legs, is an emblem of our first reckoning with the terrors that live in nature
read moreInterview by Noor Bin Ladin | MAN’S WORLD correspondent Noor Bin Ladin interviews Douglass Mackey, a.k.a. Ricky Vaughn
read moreEssay by Jonah Howell | The modern obsession with self-examination is a vice, and self-talk is a lie-machine. Each are born of another vice, that of insecurity and the consistency- and reputation-addictions that it causes
read moreEssay by Joseph Conrad | a marvellous achievement is not necessarily interesting. It may render life more tame than perhaps it should be
read moreEssay by Friedrich Nietzsche | The Greeks voice their opinion that work is a disgrace with shocking openness
read moreEssay by Joseph Conrad | The sea has been for me a hallowed ground, thanks to those books of travel and discovery which have peopled it with unforgettable shades of the masters in the calling which, in a humble way, was to be mine
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