Around a month ago, we asked Jacobin’s friends and contributors for a couple sentences about what they were reading. They got a bit too excited and sent us rambling screeds on the subject. Here they are (in an unedited form, because we weren’t actually interested enough to read them ourselves):

Sarah Leonard

I’m reading two books about men struggling with the grey flannel cage of conformity and emotional death: Barbara Ehrenreich’s excellent The Hearts of Men: American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment and C. Wright Mills’s White Collar. Ehrenreich’s book does some overturning of the notion that men’s desertion of the strict 1950s “breadwinner ethic” was an antifeminist reaction rather than a reaction to dissatisfactions with their own narrow roles. And apparently we’ve been writing this Atlantic article for the last six decades or so.