Review: What do Bernie Madoff and Sylvia Plath have in common? Malcolm Gladwell explains
by Chris Barton, Los Angeles Times
Sep 10, 2019
3 minutes
"Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know" by Malcolm Gladwell; Little Brown and Company (387 pages, $30)
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What does Malcolm Gladwell sound like when he's angry?
That sounds like the setup for a joke when considering the best-selling author, New Yorker writer and podcast host, whose name has become synonymous for rational, at times contrarian, examinations of conventional wisdom. But it also feels like a fitting, even Gladwellian rhetorical question in approaching "Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About
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