Malcolm Gladwell

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Gift Guide 2010: Books that'll make your coffee table look smart

Rock of Pages
There are books, and then there are deluxe books. They're like normal books, but more badass.
By MICHAEL GOETZMAN, MICAH HAUSER, AND STEVE MILLER | December 08, 2010

Brain strain

Jonah Lehrer on neurological warfare and picking a cereal
Those of us aching for a 300-page treatise about the crippling implications of the "build your own scramble" at Local 188 won't, at first glance, find a great deal of solace in Jonah Lehrer's second book, How We Decide.
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | April 08, 2009

Can Sam Yoon win?

An Obama-loving city counselor aims to be mayor of Boston
Recent elections, as you may have heard, have been about change.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | February 11, 2009

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Malcolm Gladwell's unlikely formulas for success

As Luck Would Have It
As Luck Would Have It
By KARA HADGE | December 05, 2008

Winners and sinners

Barth, Bolaño, Roth, Morrison, and more
Ah, fall, when Nobel Prize winners are announced — and, now, when past winners turn up with more good reading.
By BARBARA HOFFERT | September 11, 2008

The 100 unsexiest men in the world

Who would Scarlett least like to be with?
Welcome to the first installment of ThePhoenix.com's 100 Unsexiest Men in the World.
By BILL JENSEN & RYAN STEWART | March 27, 2008

Plunder, pillage, and profit

A provocative new book suggests big business could learn from piracy and youth culture
When Napster, invented by a Northeastern freshman, threw the music industry into chaos in 1999, Steve Jobs didn’t panic. He saw an opportunity.
By MIKE MILIARD | January 16, 2008

Air apparent?

McNallica finishes fourth in the U.S.
Maybe New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell is a breast man.
By JEFF INGLIS | August 20, 2007

The pornography of pharmacology

Pagan Kennedy on drugs, memory, and the lure of nostalgia
“We’re so disconnected from our past selves,” says Kennedy. “Like what would the eight year-old you think of you now? That’s something that’s unsettling to me. I’d love to go back to be able to talk to the eight year-old.” Memories of you: Pagan Kennedy’s future nostalgia.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN | June 27, 2006

Grief encounters

Frozen , Dark As a Thousand Midnights , A Prayer for Owen Meany
Bryony Lavery turns a cold eye on a heated subject in Frozen (at New Repertory Theatre through February 12).
By CAROLYN CLAY | January 25, 2006