Note: This story contains spoilers, don’t read if you want to be surprised by the film. Maybe there’s something in the air at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, where humor and sex often go ...

Not long ago, the Inklings society at Brown University invited me to give a talk on Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. I decided to speak on the topic of “bromance,” an emotionally and physically ...

The band-crush is a particularly powerful version of the more traditional man-crush, not to mention a dangerous wildcard to introduce into a professional partnership. To wit, in the song “Whateryadoin ...

Source: Smellyavocado, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons One question raised by several young men I interviewed during the past decade was whether a bromance counts as a marker of romantic ...