The Kilimanjaro of macho, Hemingway has no competition as an explorer of the theme of masculinity. He may have failed in his quest to become a great novelist, but on the way he became one of the greatest short story writers, on a par with his heroes Turgenev, Maupassant, Tolstoy and Chekhov.

Short stories about war, boxing, drinking and women. What else do you need?

A man's love is undying.

Literature's Most Valuable Player, the crafty Odysseus, taught Western civilization the art of manhood: do whatever it takes to win.

Fathers, sons, best friends, Russia. Not a bad little book.

Men go crazy.

Robert Bly's classic manual: a mytho-poetic critique of post-modern masculinity. How not to be a wuss or a wimp.

Sometimes running away can be pretty manly. Depends on who's chasing, and whether they're gaining on you.

Men lust for money like pigs.

A warrior is beautiful in combat.

When a man's not jerking off, he's thinking about sex.

Old Montaigne was secure enough in retirement to look at himself honestly; he left us history's truest portrait of a man.

A man is a mariner -- calculating, preparing, planning, observing, hoping, fearing....then sailing alone into deep waters.

A man is a lusty bohemian poet in a surreal and endless city. Not for squares.

A man tries hard to be good at something. Sports is the first thing a man tries to be good at. The story of the greatest hitter who ever lived.

A great man does what's right -- even when it means putting up with disrespect and opprobrium. America's best film ever about the Israeli-Palestinian situation, through the lens of Jimmy Carter's American book tour for the controversial book "Palestine: Peace not Apartheid."

Men are gangsters.

Ice is the only rapper who pronounces all the words; the Sinatra of rap phrasing, and that's not a diss.

How to keep women from driving you crazy when they "want to talk": listen for feelings, because the words are often incomprehensible otherwise.