Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm Gladwell is a British-Canadian journalist and longtime New Yorker staff writer. His books use social-science research, reported characters, and counterintuitive case studies to make a broad explanatory argument memorable.

That method is strongest as an invitation to look again, not as a substitute for a full literature review. Gladwell's examples often generate productive questions precisely because their neatness can also be debated.

Start with The Tipping Point for Gladwell's original method, Outliers for success and opportunity, or What the Dog Saw for self-contained magazine essays.