Archive - Allen’s Substack

Gung-ho to Whoa

New Warriors and Society’s Debt to Vets

Apr 16 •

March 2024

The Boxer as a Man

James J. Braddock’s Cinderella Moment

Mar 18 •

February 2024

Rights, Fights, and Sex Difference

Finding the upside of "male insecurity"

Feb 18 •

January 2024

Boxing and Masculinity in the novels of Patrick O’Brian

Jan 21 •

Fighting, Writing, and Delusion

How John Clare Became Lord Byron

Jan 7 •

December 2023

Byron, Boxing, and the Byronic Hero

Learning about masculinity from a poet who loved to box

Dec 22, 2023 •

Rocky Graziano done it by himself

Everybody down here liked him

Dec 4, 2023 •

November 2023

Finding Tony Zale

Wining in the ring, losing in life

Nov 12, 2023 •

ChatGPT’s advice on a forgotten boxer

Finding Tony Zale (part 1)

Nov 12, 2023 •

October 2023

Boxing, Battle, and W. C. Heinz

Oct 27, 2023 •

From Here to Eternity: James Jones, Boxing, and Masculinity

An author looking for love and finding it in unlikely places

Oct 23, 2023 •

Thom Jones, boxing, and The Pugilist at Rest

The Illinois author, the war in Vietnam, and ancient Greece

Oct 5, 2023 •

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