From Workplace, a special issue on mental labor, including David B. Downing (IUP): Autonomy vs. Insecurity: The (Mis)Fortunes of Mental Labor in a Global Network; George Caffentzis (Maine): From the Grundrisse to Capital and Beyond: Then and Now; Charles Thorpe (UCSD): Capitalism, Audit, and the Demise of the Humanistic Academy; an essay on ideology and the crisis of capitalism; a review of Three Strikes: Labor’s Heartland Losses and What They Mean for Working Americans by Stephen Franklin; a review of Taking Back the Workers’ Law: How to Fight the Assault on Labor Rights by Ellen Dannin; and a review of After Multiculturalism: The Politics of Race and the Dialectics of Liberty by John F. Welsh. A review of The New Feminized Majority: How Democrats Can Change America with Women’s Values by Katherine Adam and Charles Derber. More and more and more on The Book of Dead Philosophers by Simon Critchley. A review of The World: A Brief History by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto. From Bookforum, nobody’s everyman: Novelist Richard Ford considers Frank Bascombe’s role as a stand-in for the rest of us. First were the buses — now atheists get a student society. The ladies with all the answers: The women who have penned some of the most sought-out advice columns are experts in a kind of social history.