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Here, using the Grimm Fairy tale Iron John as a vehicle, Bly explores the myths and cultural underpinnings of a distinctly vigorous male mode of feeling, a combination of fierceness and tenderness long since sacrificed to the demands of the industrial revolution.

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In this national best-seller, Robert Bly explores the idea of the missing father in contemporary society. He draws upon a cornucopia of legend and literature - as varied as the poetry of William Blake, Jungian psychology, and Sioux initiation rituals - to encourage men in their pursuit of the “inner warrior.”

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Is bigfoot real a new book dives deep into the legend.

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A person dressed as Bigfoot makes their way through the snow during a blizzard in Boston in January 2015. John O'Connor's The Secret History of Bigfoot explores the myth and its lingering appeal. Kayana Szymczak/Getty Images hide caption

A person dressed as Bigfoot makes their way through the snow during a blizzard in Boston in January 2015. John O'Connor's The Secret History of Bigfoot explores the myth and its lingering appeal.

My obsession with literature exploded in my early teens. Back then, my diet consisted mostly of whatever classics I could find, novels by Jules Verne, poetry by Mario Benedetti, and a lot of horror novels by Stephen King, Richard Laymon, and Bentley Little — all of which I was arguably way too young to be reading.

Then I discovered cryptozoology and went down a rabbit hole, consuming anything I could find about cryptids like Nessie, mokèlé-mbèmbé, and the chupacabras as well as animals that had jumped from cryptozoology to the pages of science books — the giant squid ( Architeuthis dux ) and the coelacanth. My favorite cryptid? Bigfoot. Books, documentaries shot with a $12 budget, shaky footage online; I couldn't get enough. I wanted to know more about it, but also about the folks who swore it was real, the people who had seen it, the devout researchers who spent countless nights out in the middle of woods looking for the famous creature I'd seen in the Patterson-Gimlin film (which is, along with the Zapruder film, probably one of the most scrutinized pieces of footage in history).

When I heard John O'Connor's The Secret History of Bigfoot: Field Notes on a North American Monster was coming, I knew I had to read it. My expectations were somewhere close to the exosphere — unfair, I know — but O'Connor surpassed all of them.

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If you're looking for a book that proves the existence of Bigfoot, look elsewhere. If you want a book that's all about discrediting evidence and making those who believe in Bigfoot look like mumbling fools wearing tinfoil hats, also look elsewhere. The Secret History of Bigfoot is a smart, engaging, incredibly informative, hilarious, and wonderfully immersive journey not only into the history of Bigfoot in North America and the culture around but also a deep, honest, heartfelt look at the people who obsess about, the meaning of its myth's lingering appeal, and the psychology behind it.

O'Connor, a journalist and self-diagnosed skeptic, is fascinated by Bigfoot, so he spent a year travelling around the country, talking to those who live for Sasquatch, and tracking Bigfoot in the untamed terrain of the Pacific Northwest. The book would've been interesting if O'Connor merely transcribed his interviews with those looking for Bigfoot. But his research and interviews also include psychologists and scientists — and he delves deep into everything from history and philosophy to politics and the flawed nature of memory. The result is one of the most compelling nonfiction books you'll read this year.

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There are two elements that make this is fantastic read. The first is O'Connor's voice. As knowledgeable as he is funny and as well-read as he is self-deprecating, O'Connor quickly turns into the perfect narrator for this adventure. His quest for understanding is powerful, and he presents every person in this book with the same gravitas. Yes, this is a hilarious narrative, but also a very serious and enlightening one in which O'Connor prefers to make fun of himself instead of making fun of others (except for folks who are convinced the election was stolen).

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The Lore Of Bigfoot Lives On At North Carolina Bigfoot Festival

The second element is the breadth and scope of this book. This is about Bigfoot, about its history and the people trying to find him, but O'Connor somehow manages to take the discussion into unexpected places without ever straying far from the creature at the core of the narrative. Occam's razor, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, the effects of unreliable witness accounts and racism in our legal system, pseudoscience and its appeal, "the magnetic tug of hidden things," and "the considerable gap between perception and reality" are all part of this book. So are Fernando Pessoa, Henry David Thoreau, M.C. Escher, Joseph Campbell, the Appalachian Trail, the movies Harry and the Hendersons and Predator, Immanuel Kant, Martin Heidegger, and Dr. Jeff Meldrum, a full professor of anatomy and anthropology at Idaho State University who was always the voice of reason in many of those documentaries I used to watch. And those are only a few of the people, cultural products, and ideas in the book. O'Connor is brilliant in an engaging way. You'll learn things reading this book, but you'll never feel like he's trying to teach you something or preaching about his own beliefs.

The Secret History of Bigfoot is a wonderful book about one of the most ubiquitous myths in the U.S. and around the world: a wild man, a hairy beast stalking the woods, a magical creature that remains untouched by the mess we've made. It's also a celebration of one of the weirdest subcultures we have and a narrative that fully embraces the fact that we sometimes need to believe in something that's bigger and freer than us. Bigfoot, a large being stomping around in the woods, is all of that and more. He speaks to us of fear, sure, but also of magic and the wildness of nature. Bigfoot might be out there, but its presence is all over this book. Go look for it. I assure you it's an amazing adventure you can embark on without leaving your house.

Gabino Iglesias is an author, book reviewer and professor living in Austin, Texas. Find him on X, formerly Twitter, at @Gabino_Iglesias .

You’re Fighting With Your Partner All Wrong

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J ulie and John Gottman are among the OGs of marriage therapy and research. The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work , one of John's early works, is among the bestselling marriage books of all time. And the Gottman Institute, which houses the research facility known as "The Love Lab," is considered the gold standard for relationship research. The Gottmans, who have been married to each other since 1987 (he's 81 and she's 72), have a new book, Fight Right , about how couples can learn to disagree in a loving way. TIME asked them to comment on some of the most common pieces of marriage advice. They didn't hold back.

If you fight with your partner, you’re not meant for each other .

Julie Gottman : That is pure, unadulterated myth. For one thing, people have different personalities and different lifestyle preferences, so when they live together, those are going to manifest. What we have found from our research about really successful couples is that they fight frequently. What they tend to do is go much deeper underneath the surface of a fight, asking questions of one another that are meaningful, that get down to core issues, perhaps background history that's gotten triggered in some way or if it conflicts with what we call an "ideal dream," the values that are most important to you and how you want to live those values and live those passions. When people slow down to ask questions of one another, they end up with greater connection and greater compassion from understanding their partner better.

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Every marital argument has a solution; you just have to find it.

John Gottman : Well, that's a myth, because 69% of all conflicts are not resolvable; they come from those personality differences. People tend to argue about the same issues over and over, and those issues don't have a solution. But the master couples find a way to accommodate those differences in personality—even to laugh about them—but find temporary solutions to the differences. It’s not so much a matter of resolving the issue as learning to understand the differences and accept those differences, and maybe even be enriched by them in a relationship.

In every fight, one person is right and one person is wrong.

Julie : That's the way people sabotage connection during a fight—by fighting to win, as opposed to fighting to understand. The purpose of a fight is to understand that person's perspective and where it comes from, to give it some empathy, validate it, understand it better, and then move towards a solution. If you turn it into a contest or a competition, then one person wins, and the other person feels resentment, feels upset, feels angry because they lost; it doesn't feel like a connection.

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Men fight logically and women fight emotionally.

John : When good research is done on men's interactions and women's interactions, men are every bit as emotional as women are. And women are every bit as rational as men. Even though there are some cultural norms that suggest that it's OK for men to get angry, but not OK for women; they should be much more nurturing and accepting and soothing. Men in their friendships with other men are just as emotional, just as rational as women are in their friendships with women. There really aren't these gigantic differences, especially in the area of problem solving, and rationality.

The best way to solve a conflict is to stay rational and unemotional.

John : The myth that's inherent here is that if you're emotional, you can't be rational. But actually, modern neuroscience shows that you have to be emotional when you problem-solve, because otherwise, you really don't have the intuitive approach that is required to really solve the problems. Intuition is a big part of problem solving. Our emotions are really our internal GPS that give us our goals, our preferences, and our motivations. So if we're cut off from them, then we problem-solve without really having a goal. And that doesn't work. You need to know where you want to go.

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Anger is bad and should be avoided at all costs.

John : In our longitudinal research, we found that women who are angry at their husbands and express their anger had less happy husbands than the women who did not express their anger. But when we followed them over time, their marriages got better, because their husbands learned how to accept influence from their wives. Women who suppressed their anger grew increasingly distant from their husbands, and that made the marriage much less happy.

Nobody can hurt you unless you let them.

Julie : Wrong, wrong, wrong. Humans are pack animals. Who we are influences somebody else. And because we are pack animals, we depend on one another. We learn to trust each other and also to accept the humanity of the other person. What that means is to accept the times when they're not perfect, when they hurt us. It's our responsibility to raise an issue, that we've been hurt by something or that we disagree about something. But to say that "no matter what my partner says, it's not going to affect me?" It's impossible.

John: Especially if they use their contempt to form a coalition against you, within the family, they can hurt you directly, or indirectly.

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Never go to bed angry.

Julie : Of course we're going to go to bed angry. What happens if you have a fight late at night and then you realize you have no reserves left to really talk about it? What are you gonna do? You go to bed angry and hopefully get to sleep at a reasonable hour. And the next day when you're a little more refreshed, you talk about it.

Always apologize right away and then move on.

Julie: That's a giant myth. Until you've talked about the impact of the fight, and how you felt during the fight, you don't know what you're apologizing for. And so the apology is meaningless. It's very important to explore what you perceived and what got triggered for you before you actually apologize. Because you know what you're apologizing for after that.

The pandemic was terrible for marriages.

Julie : The happy couples, who went into quarantine in a good place, tended to get even closer. But the couples who were unhappy ended up in a very bad place. I saw that a lot of my clinical work. They fought more. They sometimes became domestically violent, and domestic violence rose during COVID-19, particularly among those couples. We also saw a tremendous amount of loneliness.

The key thing to do when fighting is to just stop and listen.

Julie: Actually, yes, that is one of them. However, I think another very important key is just describe yourself, what you feel, what the situation is, and then what you need. And if your need has to do with not liking something, flip that on its head. What can replace the behavior that you feel negatively about, that will help your partner to shine in your eyes?

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This latest study of John McGahern in the impressive Routledge Studies in Irish Literature series is an important contribution to the ever-expanding critical attention the Leitrim writer has received since his death in 2006. John Singleton has divided the book into four parts which follow the chronological evolution of the oeuvre under the headings Plato’s Cave; the heterotopia; the Halfway House and the Fifth Province.

The early stage, consisting of The Barracks, The Dark and the first short story collection, Nightlines, presents a self-enclosed world that “reveals partition and alienation within supposedly unified space”, most often the family home, where characters have difficulty escaping from a stultifying Plato’s Cave. The middle period, covering The Leavetaking, The Pornographer and the short story collections Getting Through and High Ground, is more urban-based, subject to “Foucauldian heterotopias”, a term Singleton explains as “spaces that are somehow Other, parallel to society”. Here, individuals sometimes experience a more wholesome encounter with other people – witness Isobel and Nurse Brady who offer the possibility of a more fulfilling life to the male protagonists in the two novels of this period.

I would agree with Singleton that the mature period of McGahern’s literary output is one where the return to the customary rural location does not stifle characters’ development to the same extent as in the early work. However, even if the tone of That They May Face the Rising Sun is markedly more pastoral and celebratory than previous works, there is still plenty of familial tension and violence in Amongst Women. The image of a dying Moran walking the fields at the back of his house and “seeing” for the first time “what an amazing glory he was part of” brings to mind how “looking” and “seeing” are very different. By choosing “Ways of Looking” as the sub-title of his study, Singleton foregrounds the literary strategies employed by McGahern in paving the way for the moments of catharsis that one encounters in Memoir, which discloses “how the writing of fiction shaped his [McGahern’s] life even as he was living it”.

This well-written and accessible study demonstrates how the work of John McGahern continues to fascinate and draw new readers. It is a shining example of how insightful criticism unveils fresh “ways of looking” at literary texts.

John Lewis, Medgar Evers and the Politics of Fighting Hate

“John Lewis” and “Medgar and Myrlie” tell the stories of activists who struggled with when to push and when to compromise and build coalitions.

A diptych of two black-and-white photographs. The one on the left shows a man’s head in profile with his eyes cast downward. He wears a striped shirt and tie. The other, on the right, is of a man in a plaid button-down seen from the waist up. He stands on the right side of the frame and there is a field behind him and beyond that, downhill, there are power lines suspended on poles that run across the street.

By Matthew F. Delmont

Matthew F. Delmont is a professor of history at Dartmouth College and the author of “Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad.”

JOHN LEWIS: In Search of the Beloved Community, by Raymond Arsenault

MEDGAR AND MYRLIE: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America, by Joy-Ann Reid

In the spring of 1961, John Lewis and Medgar Evers found themselves at odds with the leadership of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The N.A.A.C.P. executive secretary, Roy Wilkins, wanted Black freedom won through institutional channels: voter registration and the courts. As 21-year-old Lewis and the other young Freedom Riders prepared to set off by Greyhound for Mississippi that May, Wilkins fretted: What would their new allies in the White House think? He dismissed the journey as a “joy ride.”

It was anything but. As a pair of new biographies show, Lewis and Evers helped to develop the direct-action protest tactics that reshaped the civil rights movement. In the deeply researched and accessible “John Lewis,” for example, the historian Raymond Arsenault describes how the Freedom Riders were arrested and jailed almost as soon as they reached Jackson. (They tried to use the whites-only restroom at the bus station.) Their incarceration garnered national attention, and, by the end of the summer, more than 400 activists were inspired to participate in more than 60 different rides. Two-thirds of them ended up in prison in Mississippi.

To be clear, Evers and Lewis weren’t exactly on the same page either. Evers, a World War II veteran, was the N.A.A.C.P.’s field secretary in Mississippi and more than a decade older than Lewis. As the MSNBC journalist Joy-Ann Reid details in her compelling history, “Medgar and Myrlie,” Evers traveled the state extensively and he was intimately familiar with the virulent racism and violence the riders would encounter.

Lewis was not. “I’d never been to Mississippi before,” he later explained. “All my life I had heard unbelievably horrible things about the place, stories of murders and lynchings, bodies dumped in rivers.”

While Evers respected their courage, he worried that outsiders would compete with the sit-ins and protests already taking place among — and being led by — Black youth in Jackson.

Still, as Reid shows, Evers supported young activists and believed in collaboration. He set the Freedom Riders up with an office a few doors down from his own.

Reid centers her engrossing history on the bond between Medgar Evers and his wife, now Myrlie Evers-Williams. The couple met in college and married on Christmas Eve in 1951. “He talked about how much he loved his country,” Evers-Williams recalls. “And he questioned how much his country loved and respected him.”

After Evers returned from France, a nation where Black G.I.s got better treatment than they did at home, Medgar saw with fresh eyes why justice in America could not be achieved through the election booth alone. Working with the N.A.A.C.P., he began investigating white supremacist murders, like that of Lamar “Ditney” Smith, a World War II veteran who was shot and killed by three white men on the steps of a courthouse where he was delivering absentee ballots from other Black voters.

Smith’s killing came just weeks before the lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till, a case that haunted Evers for the remainder of his too short life. Reid writes that Medgar did the “painstaking work of convincing terrorized Blacks in the Delta” to appear as witnesses. His name started appearing on a Ku Klux Klan “kill list.” Many days at work, he wept at his desk.

Till’s murder also shook Lewis, who was just a year older than Till at the time. “That could have been me, beaten, tortured, dead at the bottom of a river,” he later wrote. He began to question the American principles of democracy and equality he had read about as a child. He felt like a “fool” for being excited by the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board decision outlawing school segregation.

In Mississippi, Evers worked to recruit disillusioned young people like Lewis. He traveled relentlessly, reviving field offices across the state and establishing youth councils among Black students. Evers’s story is less familiar than those of Lewis, Martin Luther King Jr. or Rosa Parks, but Reid persuasively argues that Evers was the architect of a “civil rights underground network” that provided the foundations for other civil rights organizations in his state.

The risks of his activism weighed heavily on Myrlie. “When he left the house every day, I never knew whether I’d see him again,” she tells Reid. The terrible moment she had long feared came just after midnight on June 12, 1963, when a Klansman assassinated Medgar in the driveway of the couple’s Jackson home.

When news of Evers’s murder broke, “something died in all of us,” Lewis later said . That month, Lewis became the chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and spent the summer crisscrossing the South leading nonviolence workshops.

The gulf between younger and older activists widened as the August date approached for the March on Washington, an event that Lewis and his SNCC colleagues “feared would be a pro-administration showcase” designed “to curry favor with the government,” Arsenault writes. “I didn’t want to be part of a parade,” Lewis later explained.

Lewis drafted a fiery speech, only for the elder civil rights leaders of the march — Wilkins, Whitney Young, M.L.K. — to pressure him to soften the tone. A. Phillip Randolph, who had first envisioned the march two decades earlier, was near tears when he pleaded with him: “I’ve waited all of my life for this opportunity. Please don’t ruin it.”

While some fellow activists criticized Lewis for scaling back the more radical language in his speech, the March on Washington in many ways epitomized what he hoped America might become. Lewis made his peace with the compromise and joined the broader coalition for social justice, his “Beloved Community.”

Over the next six decades, he organized with and against a wide range of political figures. In 1986, he squared off against his friend and fellow SNCC veteran, the charismatic and cerebral Julian Bond, in a tough primary campaign for the U.S. House of Representatives. In one debate, Lewis challenged Bond to take a drug test .

Lewis won and served 17 terms in Congress, where he wrangled with everyone from Newt Gingrich, the Republican speaker of the House, to President Bill Clinton, whose political pragmatism left Lewis cold.

And then there was President Donald Trump. “His earlier hope that the Republicans — and all Americans — would eventually come to embrace his belief in liberty and justice for all seemed naïve,” Arsenault writes. His aspirations got smaller. Civility seemed more achievable than civil rights.

But Lewis continued to support young agitators. Weakened by pancreatic cancer, he went to Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington, D.C., on June 7, 2020. (“You cannot stop the call of history,” Lewis said ahead of the visit.) He died 10 days later.

Arsenault’s book, a substantial entry in Yale’s Black Lives series, focuses primarily on the activist-turned-politician’s public life and is successful on this score. Still, I wanted to learn more about the people who knew Lewis the longest and what these relationships meant to him. “My family,” Lewis recalls in one tantalizing quote, “had never really been connected to or understood my involvement in the movement. To them, it was as if I was living in a foreign country.”

Reid conducted extensive interviews with Evers-Williams and offers a much more intimate account. After Medgar’s assassination, one of his young sons slept with a toy gun near his pillow. Myrlie considered taking her own life. Ultimately, she channeled her fear into public speaking and became a major fund-raiser for the N.A.A.C.P.

Myrlie never gave up on bringing Medgar’s killer to justice. The F.B.I. identified Byron De La Beckwith shortly after the murder, but he was not convicted until 1994. When the verdict was read, Myrlie broke into tears. Outside the courthouse, she locked arms with her children and looked toward the sky. “It’s been a long journey,” she said. “Medgar, I’ve gone the last mile.”

JOHN LEWIS : In Search of the Beloved Community | By Raymond Arsenault | Yale University Press | 552 pp. | $35

MEDGAR AND MYRLIE : Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America | By Joy-Ann Reid | Mariner | 342 pp. | $30

A Guide to Black History Month

The monthlong celebration honors how african americans have shaped the united states through both triumphs and trauma..

Carter G. Woodson’s house, the birthplace of Black History Month, was a hub of scholarship, bringing together generations of intellectuals, writers and activists .

Wondering how Black History Month  came to be? Learn about the history of this celebration .

Dig deeper with the 1619 Project , an initiative by The Times Magazine that aims to reframe America’s history by placing the consequences of slavery at the very center of the nation’s narrative.

Expand your knowledge with Black History, Continued , our project devoted to pivotal moments and transformative figures in Black history.

Explore Black love in all its forms and expressions with this collection of heart-warming stories .

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