Book
Men Without Men
Men Without Men is Angelica’s forthcoming book about male friendship in the modern age. For centuries, men built their lives around deep emotional ties with one another, often in ways that limited women’s autonomy. Yet in much of the Western world today, those bonds have withered under changing masculine norms and shifting social infrastructure. Today, millions of men live without close friends, and the few relationships they do have are often funnelled into romance, leaving women to shoulder the work of intimacy and men to navigate life without the deep networks that sustain human well-being.
Drawing on years of listening to men and boys talk about their friendships, and tracing how history, culture, and shifting social structures shaped their lives, Men Without Men examines how we arrived here and what might change if men maintained closer emotional ties with one another. Chronicling stories of best-friendship that stretch from barbershops to monasteries, from playgrounds to ranches, and from boys’ boarding school dormitories to adult men’s retreats, Men Without Men depicts men as they are: as longing, vulnerable, searching for connection, and profoundly shaped by the worlds we’ve built around them.
Men Without Men will be published by Simon & Schuster in the United States and Penguin Random House (Fern Press) in the United Kingdom and Canada (Knopf). Translations will be available in French by La Muete, Spanish by Penguin España, German by Hanserblau, and Japanese by Kawade Shobo Shinsha, among others.