Books like Lord of the Flies and Call of the Wild are fairly standard recommended reading for boys, but there are plenty of other tomes that speak directly to young adult males and are well worth ...

For example, Tao Te Ching (Dao De Jing), the classic text of Laozi, the thinker who lived nearly 2,500 years ago, says "shang shan ruo shui", meaning the highest goodness is like water ...

T.A. Morton discusses myth, Taoism, and anonymity in her novel The Coffee Shop Masquerade, set in contemporary Hong Kong.