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Malcolm Gladwell

July 2024

  • Martha Gill

    Practice doesn’t always make perfect – that’s why you’re not in the Olympics

    Martha Gill
    Don’t put your faith in the 10,000-hour rule – some athletes are born with talents the rest of us will never have

June 2022

  • Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

    Don’t Trust Your Gut by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz review – the problem with intuition

    From relationships, to sport, to happiness – why data points, not feelings, are a better guide to what works

August 2021

  • illustration of people reading books

    Self and wellbeing
    Can ‘smart thinking’ books really give you the edge?

    Trust your gut, boost your memory, de-bias your decision making… can we train our brains to perform better?

May 2021

  • Review cover image 28th May 2021 Books in a pile with stickies making a smile

    Dreaming of a better future? Ali Smith, Malcolm Gladwell and more on books to inspire change

    As our thoughts turn to life after the pandemic, authors from this year’s Hay festival choose books that have inspired lasting change in them

April 2021

  • Malcolm Gladwell

    The Q&A
    Malcolm Gladwell: ‘I deplore people who deny the extent of their privilege’

    The author and journalist on the cold war, his Adam’s apple, and nearly being deported

November 2020

  • 1957-G by Clyfford Still at Sotheby’s in New York.

    The bigger picture: should British museums sell to stay afloat?

    As galleries auction off treasures to retain staff and plug cash gaps left by Covid, the art world is divided on ethics of disposal

August 2020

  • audiobooks

    Now you're talking! The best audiobooks, chosen by writers

    Memoirs, mysteries and coming-of-age stories are lifted by a powerful voice – that of a great actor, or the writer in full reveal. Here, 15 artists and critics pick their favourite audiobooks

July 2020

  • JK Rowling, Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie.

    Rowling, Rushdie and Atwood warn against ‘intolerance’ in open letter

    Harper’s letter asserts way to ‘defeat bad ideas is by exposure, argument, and persuasion’, but critics accuse authors of censorious mentality

October 2019

  • Malcolm Gladwell, author, photographed at the Penguin Offices, Central London

    Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell review – fascinating study of why we misread those we don’t know

    Gladwell’s typically digressive exploration of the assumptions we make when dealing with strangers is compelling

September 2019

  • Books of the century so far

    Best culture of the 21st century
    The 100 best books of the 21st century

  • File photo of Amanda Knox, the U.S. student convicted of killing her British flatmate in Italy in 2007, looking on during a trial session in Perugia<br>Amanda Knox, the U.S. student convicted of killing her British flatmate in Italy in 2007, looks on during a trial session in Perugia in this January 22, 2011 file photo. Italy’s highest court is expected to rule March 27, 2015 on whether to uphold the conviction of Knox and her Italian ex-boyfriend for the murder of Meredith Kercher. REUTERS/Alessia Pierdomenico/Files

    Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell review – puzzled by banalities

  • Malcolm Gladwell author picture Talking to Strangers

    Books that made me
    Malcolm Gladwell: ‘A book that changed my life? Agatha Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd’

  • Malcolm Gladwell

    Autumn arts preview 2019
    Malcolm Gladwell: ‘I’m just trying to get people to take psychology seriously’

August 2019

  • Art Pepper climbing the hill on Fargo Street in Los Angeles near his home.

    Art Pepper blew away the idea that practice makes perfect

  • Student playing violin

    Blow to 10,000-hour rule as study finds practice doesn't always make perfect

September 2018

  • Malcolm Gladwell meets Ben Fountain.

    Malcolm Gladwell meets Ben Fountain: 'So much of politics is absurd and dumb'

    The two writers sat down in Brooklyn, New York, to talk about Fountain’s new book Beautiful Country Burn again and Trump, Hillary Clinton and the American psyche

August 2017

  • Malcolm Gladwell in the finishing stages of the Fifth Avenue Mile in 2014.

    Observer running special
    Why I run by Malcolm Gladwell, Denise Lewis, Sadiq Khan and more

    Former political strategist Alastair Campbell says he gets his best ideas while running, DJ Charlie Dark uses it to bring communities together and chef Michel Roux Jr says it helps him deal with stress

January 2017

  • Key Speakers At The Barclays Asia Forum<br>Author and columnist Malcolm Gladwell poses for a photograph at the Barclays Asia Forum in Hong Kong, China, on Thursday, Nov. 6, 2014. Gladwell said trust is a very easy thing to squander during a discussion on the shift in trust over the last few years between people and governments. Photographer: Jerome Favre/Bloomberg via Getty Images

    The week in radio: America Rewritten; FRDH; Geoff Lloyd with Annabel Port

  • Ariel Levy, Richard Ford, Marilynne Robinson, Walter Mosley, Malcolm Gladwell, Lionel Shriver

    From Marilynne Robinson to Richard Ford, six writers in search of Trump's America

December 2016

  • Podcast lessons

    2016 in review
    There's a search for a fifth meat – and 19 other things podcasts taught us in 2016

    Whether it’s asking what happens when you watch Sex and the City 2 more than 50 times or which Oscar has won an Oscar, there’s no question a podcast somewhere hasn’t answered
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