The decimated remains of English mining towns have proven fertile ground for interrogations of masculinity and sexuality. Nowhere, it seems, is more “manly” than a coal pit, but put your eye close enough to the shaft (#sorrynotsorry) and it’s not hard (#ibid) to see the fragility of machismo. In his first novel, poet
PITY by Andrew McMillan
PITY by Andrew McMillan
PITY by Andrew McMillan
The decimated remains of English mining towns have proven fertile ground for interrogations of masculinity and sexuality. Nowhere, it seems, is more “manly” than a coal pit, but put your eye close enough to the shaft (#sorrynotsorry) and it’s not hard (#ibid) to see the fragility of machismo. In his first novel, poet