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“Odes to Old-fashioned Hard Work”
Matthew B. Crawford’s popular new book Shop Class as Soulcraft, which was excerpted in the New York Times Magazine, has received ample review attention. I’ve been surprised, though, by much of the criticism of the book, which seems to examine it in a vacuum. Distressingly few reviewers—Francis Fukuyama in the New York Times Book Review [...]
J. M. Coetzee: A brief comment and several reviews
(Photograph by Tony Cenicola for the New York Times) I have just completed the last book I will read this year: J.M. Coetzee’s new novel, Diary of a Bad Year. Each review of the book has of course discussed its three-stream or three-band structure. The first stream, at the top of the page, presents a [...]
