'We Should Not Be Friends' offers a rare view of male friendship
Literary editor Will Schwalbe's new book is a tale about connecting across divides — which is particularly heartening in our polarized culture.
Literary editor Will Schwalbe is best known for The End of Your Life Book Club, in which he wrote about reading and discussing with his dying mother some of the books that had the greatest impact on their lives. In We Should Not Be Friends, he turns his attention to an unlikely friendship that has also affected him profoundly.
offers a rare view of male friendship, which has received far less attention than platonic closeness between women. (One recent exception is by Charles McGrath, another longtime editor.) Schwalbe's new
