James Fallows, author portrait
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James Fallows

JAMES FALLOWS has been a national correspondent for The Atlantic for more than thirty-five years, reporting from China, Japan, Southeast Asia, Europe, and across the United States. He is the author of eleven previous books. His work has also appeared in many other magazines and as public-radio commentaries since the 1980s. He has won a National Book Award and a National Magazine Award. For two years he was President Jimmy Carter’s chief speechwriter.
Our Towns
China Airborne
Postcards from Tomorrow Square
Blind Into Baghdad
Breaking The News
Looking at the Sun

Books

Our Towns
China Airborne
Postcards from Tomorrow Square
Blind Into Baghdad
Breaking The News
Looking at the Sun

Working 9 to 5

It seems like hardly a week goes by without the introduction of a buzzy term to encapsulate our evolving relationship with working. Since 2020, we’ve been talking about essential workers, remote work, working parents, the great resignation, unionization, quiet quitting, the gig economy, and how, despite all this talk of work, supposedly no one wants

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Working 9 to 5