Man Down (2020)

Matt Rudd, 2020: Why Men Are Unhappy and What We Can Do About It A journalist's look at why so many men hit midlife feeling flat, traced back through childhood, school and work, and built from his own life and the stories of the men he interviewed. It is often funny, which makes the hard parts land rather than lecture. Choose it if you suspect something is wrong but would not call it depression, or if you want to understand the quiet unhappiness of the men around you. It is commentary and memoir more than a self-help manual; Charlie Hoare's book of the same name is the practical guide.