Adult men collecting dolls may seem unusual, but it's often a profound act of healing. Drawing on anthropology and psychology, this essay explores how dolls help men grieve, reclaim lost identities, and challenge rigid masculinity through care and memory.

Explore the queer undertones in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick and his passionate bond with Nathaniel Hawthorne. This essay unpacks homoerotic longing, emotional repression, and how Melville’s fiction encodes same-sex desire in the language of obsession and the sublime.