Column: Why don’t men read novels?

Writing recently at Dazed magazine online, Georgina Elliott asked “Why don’t straight men read novels?”

I am a straight man, middle-aged to boot, who does read novels, lots of them, so I found the question somewhat alienating, but at the same time, not surprising. It’s not news to me that women buy the vast majority of books in the U.S. — somewhere around 80% of the total — so I was aware that men flat out don’t read as many books as women.

But I hadn’t considered that it was a problem...