Read Talking to Strangers

How small things become epidemics; Gladwell's connectors, mavens and salesmen.

Ten thousand hours, Canadian hockey birthdays and why the Beatles were good; Gladwell on success.

Why underdogs win more often than the odds allow, from a girls' basketball full-court press to dyslexic chief executives.

Gladwell reopens his own 2000 book with darker cases: Miami bank fraud, a Los Angeles cheetah enclosure and the opioid epidemic.

Nineteen New Yorker pieces, from Cesar Millan reading dogs to why there are dozens of mustards and only one ketchup.

Snap judgement: the art historians who saw a fake kouros in two seconds, and the police shooting that shows when two seconds are not enough.

The Air Corps officers who believed precision bombing could win a war humanely, and Curtis LeMay burning Tokyo instead.

Jane Jacobs against the planners; eyes on the street and short blocks.