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My review of Matthew B. Crawford's "Shop Class as Soulcraft"

"Nice Work If You Can Get It," my review of Matthew B. Crawford's Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work , appears in this weekend's edition of The National (Abu Dhabi). For the record, I wrote this review well before the controversies of the past week.

Review of Alain de Botton's "Pleasures and Sorrows of Work"

My review of Alain de Botton's Pleasures and Sorrows of Work is in the New York Times Book Review of 28 June 2009. I'm afraid I wasn't crazy about it. As it happens, though, I wrote favorably about de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life in a round-up of Proust news published in Lingua Franca almost exactly a decade ago.