My review of Michael Chabon’s Manhood for Amateurs over at INDenverTimes.

At its best, Michael Chabon’s latest book, Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son, is never quite what it purports to be. With the exception of its most predictably didactic moments, it is neither a “shy manifesto” nor “an impractical handbook” of manhood, to quote the back matter. And for this I think we can all be thankful. Whenever the subject of manhood comes up, I’m always reminded of The Dude’s answer to the question of what makes a man in The Big Lebowski: “a pair of testicles.”

Here for the rest.