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Mean Boys: A Personal History

Bottom of the pile

19

/100

I Index Overall Rating

Readers

32/100

Critics

7/100

Scholars

N/A

Author:

Geoffrey Mak

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing

Date:

April 30, 2024

An inquiry into art and desire, style and politics, madness and salvation, and coming of age in our volatile, image-obsessed present.

What The Reviewers Say

Leland Cheuk,
The Boston Globe
Larger questions about identity and the lasting importance of the fashion and art industry that Mak has staked his career upon feel elided.

Kirkus
A wealth of observations on topics ranging from transgressive literature... to the power of the erotic.

Publishers Weekly
An intellectually rigorous memoir-in-essays.