Reviews of Boredom:
The Bookseller, Jan 14, 2011
Damon Young, The Australian, March 19, 2011
Biographia literaria, duncandriver.tumblr.com, March 15, 2011
Robert Douglas Fairhurst, The Daily Telegraph, March 28, 2011 (reprinted The Star, July 21, 2011 [Malaysia])
Stuart Kelly, The Scotsman: Scotland on Sunday, March 27, 2011
Alain de Botton, The Times (London), April 2, 2011 (book of the week)
Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday, April 3, 2011 (book of the week)
Roger Lewis, Daily Mail, April 15, 2011 (book of the week)
Bella Bathurst, Sunday Times (London), April 17, 2011
Ian Sansom, The Guardian, April 23, 2011
Matthew Sturgis, Sunday Telegraph, April 24, 2011
The West Australian, May 10, 2011
Elizabeth Lowry, Wall Street Journal, May 20, 2011
Anthony Gottlieb, New York Times, May 27, 2011 (Sunday Book Review) / International Herald Tribune, May 28, 2011
Carmela Ciuraru, Boston Globe, May 27, 2010
Nina C. Ayoub, The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 29, 2011
Kelly McMasters, Newsday (Long Island), May 26, 2011/Lansing State Journal, June 9, 2011/ (interview)
Alan Caruba, “Bookviews.com”, http://bookviewsbyalancaruba.blogspot.com, June 2011
Scott McLemee, Inside Higher Ed, June 8, 2011
Against-the-grain (ATG), June 8, 2011 (book of the week), http://www.against-the-grain.com/2011/06/atg-book-of-the-week-boredom-a-lively-history/
Joseph Epstein, Commentary Magazine, June 2011
Rachel Schteir, The New Republic, June 12, 2011
Muiris Houston, Medical Independent, June 16, 2011 (Ireland)
Jeremy Axelrod, The Daily Beast, June 20, 2011
Katie Haegele, Philadelphia Inquirer, June 26, 2011
Tim Heald, The Tablet, June 30, 2011
Eduardo Posada Carbo, El Tiempo, July 1, 2011 (Spanish)
Purnendu Ghosh, Financial Chronicle, June 3, 2011, http://www.mydigitalfc.com/2011/boredom-also-has-brighter-aspect (India)
Andrew Anthony, Observer, July 17, 2011 (an Editor’s Pick), reprinted in the Guardian-Mobileedition, July 31, 2011, repr. in El Malpensante, September 16, 2011 (Spanish)
Kristian Freden, Svenska Dagbladet, July 24, 2011 (Swedish)
Andrew Carlson, [tk] Reviews, July 2011
Thomas Verbogt, NRC Handelsblad, August 19, 2011 (Dutch)
Enjoli Liston, The Independent, August 25, 2011 / http://www.iol.co.za/ September 1 & 11, 2011
Brett Joseph Grubisic, Vancouver Sun, August 26, 2011
Peter Hoexum, Athenaeum, October 10, 2011 & April 6, 2012 (Dutch)
Hyung Hyang Newspaper, S. Korea Oct 10, 2011 (Korean)
Will Wlizlo UTNE, November-December 2011
Benno Gammerl, sehepunkte 11 (2011), No. 11 [11/15/2011] http://www.sehepunkte.de/ (German)
Athenaeum Boekhandlung: one of “de beste filosofieboeken van 2011” (Netherlands)
Gordon Pitz, PsycCRITIQUES 2012, 57 (2), No. 4 (American Psychological Association)
David Michael, Wunderkammer Magazine, Feb 6, 2012
Lesley McDowell, The Herald Scotland (Glasgow) Feb 5, 2012
Helen Zaltzman , The Observer, Feb. 26, 2012 (paperback of the week)
Katie Owen, The Sunday Telegraph, March 4, 2012 (pick of the paperbacks)
Daniel Markiewicz, Essensja, March 5, 2012 (Poland)
Magda Goetz, Oblicza kulturi, March 12, 2012 (Poland)
Chris Moss, Time Out (London), March 22-28, 2012 (5 stars)
Christopher Hirst, The Independent, March 23, 2012
Angus Clarke, The Times, March 24, 2012
Julian Jason Haladyn, Culture Machine, March 2012
S. Halling, Choice, 49.09, May 2012
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings, June 18 2012, www.brainpickings.org/index.php/author/mpopova/ (reprinted Dayton Daily News, August 6, 2012)
Maria Teresa Carbone, IlBo: Il giornale della Universita degli Studi de Padova, July 11, 2012
Fred Braeckman, Knack, July 16, 2012 (Belgium/Dutch)
Dirk-Jan Arensman, vpro boecken, August 1, 2012 (Dutch)
Johan de Haes, Cobra (cobra.be) August 24, 2012 (Belgium/Dutch) (one of the five best books of the week)
Suzanne Weusten, Volkskrant.nl, Sept. 29, 2012
Maria Popova, Brainpickings Dec 10, 2012, No. 8 of The Best History Books of 2012
Mathijs Gomperts, Cimedart 43.1, Dec. 23, 2012 (Dutch)
A.IJ. van den Berg, boeklog, March 15, 2013 (Dutch)
Steve King, barnesandnoblereview.com, April 11, 2013 (featured title)
Benjamin Kuras, http://ceskapozice.lidovky.cz/ August 14, 2013 (Czech)
A. Chris Heath MD, "What is Boredom? Vinculo Productions, book review of Boredom: A Lively History." YouTube, July 15, 2016.
Peter Toohey