Toxic Emasculinity

In 2012, the Tumblr blog "Nice Guys of OKCupid" spotlighted a now-familiar archetype: the self-proclaimed "nice guy" whose progressive, sensitive façade masks entitlement, resentment, and self-absorption. Matt Gasda’s new novel, The Sleepers, animates a pretentious, Ivy League version of this archetype. Set in Brooklyn, it follows Dan—a hyper-online, upwardly mobile academic—steeped in some of the central tensions of the millennial era.

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