Stephen Marche

Stephen Marche (born 1976)^[1] is a Canadian novelist, essayist, and cultural commentator. He is an alumnus of The University of King's College^[2] and of City College of New York (CUNY).^[3] In 2005, he received a doctorate in early modern English drama from the University of Toronto.^[4] He taught Renaissance drama at CUNY until 2007, when he resigned in order to write full-time.^[5]

Career as writer[]

Marche is a contributing editor at Esquire, for which he writes a monthly column entitled "A Thousand Words about Our Culture". In 2011, this column was a finalist for the American Society of Magazine Editors award for columns and commentary.^[6] Marche's articles also appear in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic,^[7] The Walrus, The Guardian,^[8] and other publications. Marche is also a weekly contributor to CBC Radio.

Marche's novel Raymond and Hannah was published in 2005. An anthology of short stories linked by a common plot element, Shining at the Bottom of the Sea, followed in 2007.^[9] How Shakespeare Changed Everything was published in 2011.^[10][11] Another novel, The Hunger Of The Wolf, was published in February 2015.^[12] Marche's take on the state of male–female relations in the 21st century, The Unmade Bed: The Messy Truth About Men and Women in the Twenty-First Century, was published in March 2017 with contributions from his wife.^[13]

Marche wrote an opinion piece published by The New York Times on 14 August 2015 titled "The Closing of the Canadian Mind."^[14] In this article he was critical of Stephen Harper, the Prime Minister of Canada, linking him with Rob Ford, former Mayor of Toronto who was involved in a crack cocaine scandal. Marche also published an opinion piece in The New York Times on 25 November 2017 titled "The Unexamined Brutality of the Male Libido,"^[15] about the challenges and necessity of male engagement with feminism.

Personal life[]

Marche is married to Sarah Fulford,^[1] the editor-in-chief of Toronto Life magazine.^[16] He is the son-in-law of Robert Fulford. Marche has a son and daughter,^[17] and lives in Toronto.

Bibliography[]

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Novels[]

• Marche, Stephen (2005). Raymond and Hannah.
• Marche, Stephen (2015). The Hunger Of The Wolf.

Short fiction[]

• Marche, Stephen (2007). Shining at the Bottom of the Sea.

Non-fiction[]

• Marche, Stephen (2011). How Shakespeare Changed Everything.
• Marche, Stephen (2017).The Unmade Bed: The Messy Truth About Men and Women in the Twenty-First Century.

Essays and Reporting[]

• Marche, Stephen (January 2013). "In praise of the new narcissism". A Thousand Words. Esquire. 159 (1): 56, 58.
• Marche, Stephen (August 14, 2015). "The Closing of the Canadian Mind." The New York Times.
• Marche, Stephen (November 17, 2017). "The Unexamined Brutality of the Male Libido." The New York Times.
• Marche, Stephen (September 10, 2018). "Al Qaeda Won". Foreign Policy.
• Marche, Stephen (April 20, 2019). "The 'debate of the century': what happened when Jordan Peterson debated Slavoj Žižek". The Guardian.

References[]

External links[]

• Official website

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