Malcolm Gladwell#Criticism

Gladwell was born in Fareham, Hampshire, United Kingdom. His mother Joyce (née Nation) Gladwell, is a Jamaican psychotherapist. His father, Graham Gladwell, was a mathematics professor from Kent, England.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/nov/16/malcolm-gladwell-interview-outliers|location=London, UK|work=The Guardian|title=The man who can't stop thinking|first=Tim|last=Adams|date=16 November 2008}}{{cite book|title=Faces of America: How 12 Extraordinary People Discovered Their Pasts|first=Henry Louis Jr.|last=Gates|author-link=Henry Louis Gates, Jr|page=178|publisher=NYU Press|year=2010|isbn=978-0-8147-3264-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=meYbj1E6Ki8C&pg=PA178}}{{cite news|url=http://v1.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/Deaths.20170318.93386279/BDAStory/BDA/deaths|location=Toronto|work=The Globe and Mail|title=Gladwell, Graham|date=18 March 2017|access-date=27 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170327080645/http://v1.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/Deaths.20170318.93386279/BDAStory/BDA/deaths|archive-date=27 March 2017|url-status=dead}} When he was six his family moved from Southampton to the Mennonite community of Elmira, Ontario, Canada. He has two brothers.{{cite magazine|last=Gladwell|first=Malcolm|date=January–February 2014|title=How I Rediscovered Faith|url=https://relevantmagazine.com/life5/malcolm-gladwell-how-i-rediscovered-faith/|magazine=Relevant|issue=67|access-date=22 April 2022}} Throughout his childhood, Malcolm lived in rural Ontario Mennonite country, where he attended a Mennonite church.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/middleground/gladwell.htm|title=Lost in the Middle|newspaper=The Washington Post|first=Malcolm|last=Gladwell|date=17 May 1998|access-date=30 November 2017}}{{cite news|title=Author Malcolm Gladwell finds his faith again|newspaper=The Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/author-malcolm-gladwell-finds-his-faith-again/2013/10/11/d633d8f4-3266-11e3-89ae-16e186e117d8_story.html|last=Bailey|first=Sarah Pulliam|date=11 October 2013|access-date=24 February 2021}} Research done by historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. revealed that one of Gladwell's maternal ancestors was a Jamaican free woman of colour (mixed black and white) who was a slaveowner.{{cite news |url= https://www.chronicle.com/article/Henry-Louis-Gatess-Extended/64192 |title=Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s Extended Family |last=Nelson |first=Alondra |author-link=Alondra Nelson |date=10 February 2012 |newspaper=The Chronicle of Higher Education}} His great-great-great-grandmother was of Igbo ethnicity from Nigeria. In the epilogue of his 2008 book Outliers he describes many lucky circumstances that came to his family over the course of several generations, contributing to his path towards success.Outliers p. 270 Gladwell has said that his mother is his role model as a writer.{{cite web|access-date=17 January 2009|url=http://www.charlierose.com/guest/view/510|title=A conversation with Malcolm Gladwell|work=Charlie Rose|date=19 December 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090201202630/http://www.charlierose.com/guest/view/510|archive-date=1 February 2009}}

Gladwell's father noted that Malcolm was an unusually single-minded and ambitious boy.Preston, John (26 October 2009). [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/6416229/Malcolm-Gladwell-interview.html Malcolm Gladwell Interview]. The Telegraph. When Malcolm was 11, his father, a professor of mathematics and engineering at the University of Waterloo,{{cite web|title=Dr. Graham M. L. Gladwell profile|url=http://www.civil.uwaterloo.ca/our_people/dept_person.asp?id=gladwell|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111204130118/http://www.civil.uwaterloo.ca/our_people/dept_person.asp?id=gladwell|archive-date=4 December 2011}} allowed his son to wander around the offices at his university, which stoked the boy's interest in reading and libraries.Grossman, Lev (13 November 2008). [https://web.archive.org/web/20081121174157/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1858880,00.html "Outliers: Malcolm Gladwell's Success Story"], Time. In the spring of 1982, Gladwell interned with the National Journalism Center in Washington, D.C.{{cite web|access-date=17 October 2009|url=http://www.yaf.org/njcalumnibooks.aspx|title=Books and Articles by NJC Alumni|publisher=Young America's Foundation|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091102034146/http://www.yaf.org/NJCAlumniBooks.aspx|archive-date=2 November 2009}} He graduated with a bachelor's degree in history from Trinity College of the University of Toronto in 1984.{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wnet/facesofamerica/profiles/malcolm-gladwell/9|title= Biography: Malcolm Gladwell (journalist)|date=2014|website=Faces of America, with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.|publisher=Public Broadcasting System|access-date=20 November 2014}}

Gladwell decided to pursue advertising as a career after college.{{cite news |access-date = 17 January 2009 |url = https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/05/books/review/05donadio.html |title = The Gladwell Effect |work = The New York Times |date = 5 February 2006 |author = Donadio, Rachel }} After being rejected by every advertising agency he applied to, he accepted a journalism position at conservative magazine The American Spectator and moved to Indiana. He subsequently wrote for Insight on the News, a conservative magazine owned by Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church.{{cite magazine |access-date = 28 December 2009 |last = Shafer |first = Jack |title = The Fibbing Point |magazine = Slate |date = 19 March 2008 |url = http://www.slate.com/id/2186982/ }} In 1987, Gladwell began covering business and science for The Washington Post, where he worked until 1996.[http://cooper.edu/news-events/news/malcolm-gladwell-will-be-the-cooper-union-s-152nd-commencement-speaker/ Malcolm Gladwell will be The Cooper Union's 152nd Commencement Speaker]. The Cooper Union. 22 March 2011. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110805101015/http://cooper.edu/news-events/news/malcolm-gladwell-will-be-the-cooper-union-s-152nd-commencement-speaker/ |date=5 August 2011 }} In a personal elucidation of the 10,000-hour rule he popularized in Outliers, Gladwell notes, "I was a basket case at the beginning, and I felt like an expert at the end. It took 10 years—exactly that long."

When Gladwell started at The New Yorker in 1996, he wanted to "mine current academic research for insights, theories, direction, or inspiration". His first assignment was to write a piece about fashion. Instead of writing about high-class fashion, Gladwell opted to write a piece about a man who manufactured T-shirts, saying: "[I]t was much more interesting to write a piece about someone who made a T-shirt for $8 than it was to write about a dress that costs $100,000. I mean, you or I could make a dress for $100,000, but to make a T-shirt for $8—that's much tougher."

Gladwell gained popularity with two New Yorker articles, both written in 1996: "The Tipping Point" and "The Coolhunt".[http://gladwell.com/the-coolhunt "The Coolhunt"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150907180439/http://gladwell.com/the-coolhunt/ |date=7 September 2015 }}, gladwell.com; accessed 17 January 2016. These two pieces would become the basis for Gladwell's first book, The Tipping Point, for which he received a $1 million advance.{{cite news|access-date=17 January 2009|url=http://archive.salon.com/books/feature/2000/03/17/gladwell/index.html|title=Idea epidemics|work=Salon.com|date=17 March 2000|author=McNett, Gavin|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090125042416/http://archive.salon.com/books/feature/2000/03/17/gladwell/index.html|archive-date=25 January 2009}} He continues to write for The New Yorker. Gladwell also served as a contributing editor for Grantland, a sports journalism website founded by former ESPN columnist Bill Simmons.

In a July 2002 article in The New Yorker, Gladwell introduced the concept of the "talent myth" that companies and organizations, in his view, incorrectly follow.{{cite magazine| last =Gladwell| first =Malcolm| title =The Talent Myth| magazine =The New Yorker| date =22 July 2002| url =https://www.newyorker.com/archive/2002/07/22/020722fa_fact}} This work examines different managerial and administrative techniques that companies, both winners and losers, have used. He states that the misconception seems to be that management and executives are all too ready to classify employees without ample performance records and thus make hasty decisions. Many companies believe in disproportionately rewarding "stars" over other employees with bonuses and promotions. However, with the quick rise of inexperienced workers with little in-depth performance review, promotions are often incorrectly made, putting employees into positions they should not have and keeping other, more experienced employees from rising. He also points out that under this system, narcissistic personality types are more likely to climb the ladder, since they are more likely to take more credit for achievements and take less blame for failure. He states both that narcissists make the worst managers and that the system of rewarding "stars" eventually worsens a company's position. Gladwell states that the most successful long-term companies are those who reward experience above all else and require greater time for promotions.

With the release of Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering in 2024, Gladwell has had eight books published.

When asked for the process behind his writing, he said: "I have two parallel things I'm interested in. One is, I'm interested in collecting interesting stories, and the other is I'm interested in collecting interesting research. What I'm looking for is cases where they overlap".Jaffe, Eric. [http://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/getArticle.cfm?id=1954 "Malcolm in the Middle"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120322224304/http://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/getArticle.cfm?id=1954 |date=22 March 2012 }}, psychologicalscience.org, March 2006.

{{Main|The Tipping Point}}

The initial inspiration for his first book, The Tipping Point, which was published in 2000, came from the sudden drop of crime in New York City. He wanted the book to have a broader appeal than just crime, however, and sought to explain similar phenomena through the lens of epidemiology. While Gladwell was a reporter for The Washington Post, he covered the AIDS epidemic. He began to take note of "how strange epidemics were", saying epidemiologists have a "strikingly different way of looking at the world". The term "tipping point" comes from the moment in an epidemic when the virus reaches critical mass and begins to spread at a much higher rate.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/interviews/ba2000-03-29.htm|title=Interview {{!}} Epidemic Proportions|date=29 March 2000|first=Toby|last= Lester|website=www.theatlantic.com|access-date=6 July 2018}}

Gladwell's theories of crime were heavily influenced by the "broken windows theory" of policing, and Gladwell is credited for packaging and popularizing the theory in a way that was implementable in New York City. Gladwell's theoretical implementation bears a striking resemblance to the "stop-and-frisk" policies of the NYPD.{{cite web |url = http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/sorry-malcolm-gladwell-nycs-drop-in-crime-not-due-to-broken-window-theory-12636297/?no-ist|title = Sorry, Malcolm Gladwell: NYC's Drop in Crime Not Due to Broken Window Theory|date = 6 February 2013|access-date = 10 April 2015|last = Nuwer|first = Rachel|author-link = Rachel Nuwer|website = The Smithsonian Magazine}} However, in the decade and a half since its publication, The Tipping Point and Gladwell have both come under fire for the tenuous link between "broken windows" and New York City's drop in violent crime. During a 2013 interview with BBC journalist Jon Ronson for The Culture Show, Gladwell admitted that he was "too in love with the broken-windows notion". He went on to say that he was "so enamored by the metaphorical simplicity of that idea that I overstated its importance".{{cite book | title=So You've Been Publicly Shamed | publisher=Pan MacMillan |author=Ronson, Jon |year=2015 | pages=160–162 | isbn=978-1-59448-713-2}}

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After The Tipping Point, Gladwell published Blink in 2005. The book explains how the human unconscious interprets events or cues as well as how past experiences can lead people to make informed decisions very rapidly. Gladwell uses examples like the Getty kouros and psychologist John Gottman's research on the likelihood of divorce in married couples. Gladwell's hair was the inspiration for Blink. He stated that once he allowed his hair to get longer, he started to get speeding tickets all the time, an oddity considering that he had never gotten one before and that he started getting pulled out of airport security lines for special attention.{{Cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/malcolm-gladwell-a-good-hair-day-470479.html|title=Malcolm Gladwell: A good hair day|newspaper=The Independent|first=Johnny|last=Davis|date=19 March 2006|access-date=6 July 2018|language=en-GB}} In a particular incident, he was apprehended by three police officers while walking in downtown Manhattan because his curly hair matched the profile of a rapist, despite the fact the suspect looked nothing like him otherwise.

Gladwell's The Tipping Point (2000) and Blink (2005) were international bestsellers. The Tipping Point sold more than two million copies in the United States. Blink sold equally well.{{cite news |title = Gladwell: I was an outsider many times over |url = https://www.thetimes.com/article/malcolm-gladwell-i-was-an-outsider-many-times-over-wxzdz06pxsr |newspaper = Times Online |date = June 2009 |first = Jenny |last = Booth }} {{subscription required}} As of November 2008, the two books had sold a combined 4.5 million copies.

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Gladwell's third book, Outliers, published in 2008, examines how a person's environment, in conjunction with personal drive and motivation, affects his or her possibility and opportunity for success. Gladwell's original question revolved around lawyers: "We take it for granted that there's this guy in New York who's the corporate lawyer, right? I just was curious: Why is it all the same guy?", referring to the fact that "a surprising number of the most powerful and successful corporate lawyers in New York City have almost the exact same biography".{{Cite web |title=Q and A with Malcolm |url=http://gladwell.com/outliers/outliers-q-and-a-with-malcolm/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171110154713/http://gladwell.com/outliers/outliers-q-and-a-with-malcolm/ |archive-date=10 November 2017 |access-date=14 April 2021 |website=Gladwell.com }} In another example given in the book, Gladwell noticed that people ascribe Bill Gates's success to being "really smart" or "really ambitious". He noted that he knew a lot of people who are really smart and really ambitious, but not worth $60 billion. "It struck me that our understanding of success was really crude—and there was an opportunity to dig down and come up with a better set of explanations."

{{Main|What the Dog Saw}}

Gladwell's fourth book, What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures, was published in 2009. What the Dog Saw bundles together Gladwell's favourites of his articles from The New Yorker since he joined the magazine as a staff writer in 1996.{{cite news|last=Sample|first=Ian|title=What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell|work=The Guardian|date=17 October 2009|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/oct/17/what-the-dog-saw-gladwell-review|access-date=27 October 2009|location=London}} The stories share a common theme, namely that Gladwell tries to show us the world through the eyes of others, even if that other happens to be a dog.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/books/review/Pinker-t.html|title=Book Review – 'What the Dog Saw – And Other Adventures', by Malcolm Gladwell|last=Pinker|first=Steven|date=7 November 2009|work=The New York Times}}Reynolds, Susan Salter (22 November 2009), [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-nov-22-la-ca-malcolm-gladwell22-2009nov22-story.html "'What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures' by Malcolm Gladwell – The New Yorker writer's sense of curiosity burns bright in this collection of essays"], Los Angeles Times.

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Gladwell's fifth book, David and Goliath, was released in October 2013, and examines the struggle of underdogs versus favourites. The book is partially inspired by an article Gladwell wrote for The New Yorker in 2009 entitled "How David Beats Goliath".{{cite web|first=Malcolm|last= Gladwell|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/05/11/how-david-beats-goliath |title=How David Beats Goliath|website= newyorker.com|date= 4 May 2009}}{{cite news|url=http://www.cbc.ca/books/2012/07/malcolm-gladwells-book-about-underdogs.html|title=Malcolm Gladwell's book about underdogs|publisher=Cbc.ca|date=11 July 2012|access-date=9 July 2013|archive-date=4 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004223356/http://www.cbc.ca/books/2012/07/malcolm-gladwells-book-about-underdogs.html|url-status=dead}} The book was a bestseller but received mixed reviews.Maslin, Janet (4 October 2013). "[https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/03/books/david-and-goliath-by-malcolm-gladwell.html Finding Talking Points Among the Underdogs]", The New York Times.{{cite web|url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/8042fae0-2a7f-11e3-8fb8-00144feab7de.html|title='David and Goliath' by Malcolm Gladwell|first=Lucy|last=Kellaway|work=Financial Times|date=4 October 2013}} {{subscription required}}Junod, Tom (25 November 2013). "[http://www.esquire.com/fiction/books/malcolm-gladwell-1213 Malcolm Gladwell Runs Out of Tricks]", Esquire.{{cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-09-29/gladwell-tells-us-stuff-only-dummies-don-t-know-books|title=Gladwell Tells Us Stuff Only Dummies Don't Know: Books|work=Bloomberg|date=29 September 2013|first=Craig|last=Seligman}} {{subscription required}}

{{Main|Talking to Strangers}}

Gladwell's sixth book, Talking to Strangers, was released September 2019. The book examines interactions with strangers, covers examples that include the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the trial of Amanda Knox, the suicide of Sylvia Plath, the Jerry Sandusky pedophilia case at Penn State, and the death of Sandra Bland.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbc.ca/books/new-malcolm-gladwell-book-titled-talking-to-strangers-coming-in-september-1.5007696|title=New Malcolm Gladwell book, titled Talking to Strangers, coming in September|last=Balser|first=Erin|date=6 February 2019|website=CBC Books}}{{cite news|first1=Sean|last1=O'Hagan|access-date=1 September 2019|title=Malcolm Gladwell: 'I'm just trying to get people to take psychology seriously'|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/sep/01/malcolm-gladwell-interview-talking-to-strangers-apolitical|newspaper=The Guardian|date=1 September 2019|issn=0261-3077|via=www.theguardian.com}}{{cite news|first1=Amy|last1=Chozick|access-date=1 September 2019|title=With 'Talking to Strangers,' Malcolm Gladwell Goes Dark | via=Cengage | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191217213720/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/30/business/malcolm-gladwell-talking-to-strangers.html | archive-date=17 December 2019 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/30/business/malcolm-gladwell-talking-to-strangers.html|newspaper=The New York Times| date=1 September 2019 | page=1L | orig-date=30 August 2019|issn=0362-4331 | id={{Gale|A598281962}}}} Gladwell explained what inspired him to write the book as being "struck by how many high profile cases in the news were about the same thing—strangers misunderstanding each other."{{Cite news|url=https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thenextchapter/full-episode-jan-4-2020-1.5410673/why-malcolm-gladwell-believes-humans-are-terrible-at-detecting-lies-and-why-we-all-need-to-get-better-at-it-1.5410826|title=Why Malcolm Gladwell believes humans are terrible at detecting lies – and why we all need to get better at it|last=Rogers|first=Shelagh|date=3 January 2020|work=CBC|access-date=30 January 2020}} It challenges the assumptions we are programmed to make when encountering strangers, and the potentially dangerous consequences of misreading people we do not know.{{Cite web|url=https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/307823/talking-to-strangers/9780241351567.html|title=Talking to Strangers|last=Gladwell|first=Malcolm|website=www.penguin.co.uk|language=en|access-date=5 September 2019|archive-date=5 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190905131203/https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/307823/talking-to-strangers/9780241351567.html|url-status=dead}}

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Gladwell's seventh book, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War, was released in April 2021.{{Cite book|isbn = 978-0316296618|title = The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War|last1 = Gladwell|first1 = Malcolm|year=2021| publisher=Little, Brown }}

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Gladwell's eighth book, Revenge of the Tipping Point was released in October 2024. The book is a sequel to his best seller The Tipping Point, which was released in 2000. The book discusses social epidemics and tipping points, this time with the aim of explaining the dark side of contagious phenomena, and offers an alternate history of two of the biggest epidemics of our day: COVID and the opioid crisis.

The Tipping Point was named as one of the best books of the decade by The A.V. Club, The Guardian, and The Times.[https://www.avclub.com/the-best-books-of-the-00s-1798221017 "The best books of the '00s"], The A.V. Club, 25 November 2009.[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/dec/05/books-of-the-noughties "What we were reading"], The Guardian, 5 December 2009.[https://www.thetimes.com/article/the-100-best-books-of-the-decade-952h76nd689 The 100 Best Books of the Decade]. The Times, 14 November 2009. It was also Barnes & Noble's fifth-best-selling non-fiction book of the decade.[http://www.barnesandnoble.com/u/bestsellers-nonfiction-books-decade/379002050/ Bestsellers of the Decade – Nonfiction]. Barnes & Noble. Blink was named to Fast Company{{'s}} list of the best business books of 2005.[http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/david-lidsky/technology-innovation/fast-companys-best-books-2005 Fast Company's Best Books of 2005]. Fast Company. 5 January 2008. It was also number 5 on Amazon customers' favourite books of 2005, named to The Christian Science Monitor{{'s}} best non-fiction books of 2005, and in the top 50 of Amazon customers' favourite books of the decade.[https://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?ie=UTF8&plgroup=1&docId=577695&plpage=2 Best of the Decade... So Far: Top 50 Customers' Favorites]. Amazon.com.[http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1129/p12s02-bogn.html "Best nonfiction 2005"]. The Christian Science Monitor. 29 November 2005.[https://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?ie=UTF8&docId=593614 Best Books of 2005]. Amazon.com. Outliers was a number 1 New York Times bestseller for 11 straight weeks and was Time's number 10 non-fiction book of 2008 as well as named to the San Francisco Chronicle{{'s}} list of the 50 best non-fiction books of 2008.[https://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/2009-02-15/hardcover-nonfiction/list.html Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers], The New York Times, 15 February 2009.Grossman, Lev. [https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1855948_1864143_1864154,00.html "The Top 10 of Everything 2008"]. Time, 3 November 2008.[http://www.sfgate.com/books/article/The-50-best-nonfiction-books-of-2008-3257259.php The 50 best nonfiction books of 2008]. San Francisco Chronicle. 21 December 2008.

Fortune described The Tipping Point as "a fascinating book that makes you see the world in a different way".{{cite news|access-date=28 December 2010|last=Kelly|first=Erin|title=Bookshelf|work=Fortune |date=6 March 2000|url=https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/03/06/275205/index.htm}}{{cite news|access-date=28 December 2010|last=Hawthorne|first=Christopher|title=The Massive Outbreak of an Idea|work=San Francisco Chronicle|date=5 March 2000|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2000/03/05/RV99810.DTL}} The Daily Telegraph called it "a wonderfully offbeat study of that little-understood phenomenon, the social epidemic".{{cite news|access-date=28 December 2010|last=Thompson|first=Damian|title=Are You a maven or a connector?|work=Daily Telegraph|date=9 May 2000|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4720659/Are-you-a-maven-or-a-connector.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110206134404/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4720659/Are-you-a-maven-or-a-connector.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=6 February 2011|location=London, UK}}

Reviewing Blink, The Baltimore Sun dubbed Gladwell "the most original American journalist since the young Tom Wolfe."{{cite web|access-date = 28 December 2010|last=Fuson|first=Ken|title=The Bright Stuff|work=The Baltimore Sun|date=16 January 2005|url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/2005/01/16/the-bright-stuff/}} Farhad Manjoo at Salon described the book as "a real pleasure. As in the best of Gladwell's work, Blink brims with surprising insights about our world and ourselves."{{cite news|access-date=28 December 2010|last=Manjoo|first=Farhad|title = Before you can say|work=Salon|date=13 January 2005|url=http://www.salon.com/books/review/2005/01/13/gladwell}} The Economist called Outliers "a compelling read with an important message".{{cite news|access-date=28 December 2010|title=The road to success: How did I do that?|newspaper=The Economist|date=11 December 2008|url=https://www.economist.com/node/12758320}} David Leonhardt wrote in The New York Times Book Review: "In the vast world of nonfiction writing, Malcolm Gladwell is as close to a singular talent as exists today" and Outliers "leaves you mulling over its inventive theories for days afterward".{{cite news|access-date=28 December 2010|last=Leonhardt|first=David|title=Chance and Circumstance|work=The New York Times Book Review|date=30 November 2008|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/books/review/Leonhardt-t.html}} Ian Sample wrote in The Guardian: "Brought together, the pieces form a dazzling record of Gladwell's art. There is depth to his research and clarity in his arguments, but it is the breadth of subjects he applies himself to that is truly impressive."{{cite news|access-date=28 December 2010|last=Reimer|first=Susan|title=Pill Inventor Gave Women Protection But Lost His Religion |newspaper=The Baltimore Sun|date=5 October 2009|url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/2009/10/05/pill-inventor-gave-women-protection-but-lost-his-religion/}}

Gladwell's critics have described him as prone to oversimplification. The New Republic called the final chapter of Outliers, "impervious to all forms of critical thinking" and said Gladwell believes "a perfect anecdote proves a fatuous rule".{{cite news|url=https://newrepublic.com/article/63687/mister-lucky|title=Mister Lucky|magazine=The New Republic|date=3 February 2009|access-date=20 July 2016}} Gladwell has also been criticized for his emphasis on anecdotal evidence over research to support his conclusions.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/books/18kaku.html|work=The New York Times|first=Michiko|last=Kakutani|title=It's True: Success Succeeds, and Advantages Can Help|date=18 November 2008}} Maureen Tkacik and Steven Pinker have challenged the integrity of Gladwell's approach.{{cite web|access-date = 19 November 2009|url=http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091123/tkacik |title = Gladwell for Dummies|work=The Nation|date=4 November 2009|url-status=dead|archive-date=13 November 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091113051459/http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091123/tkacik}}{{cite news|access-date=19 November 2009|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/books/review/Pinker-t.html|title=Malcolm Gladwell, Eclectic Detective|work=The New York Times|date=7 November 2009|first=Steven|last=Pinker|author-link=Steven Pinker}} Even while praising Gladwell's writing style and content, Pinker summed up Gladwell as "a minor genius who unwittingly demonstrates the hazards of statistical reasoning", while accusing him of "cherry-picked anecdotes, post-hoc sophistry and false dichotomies" in his book Outliers. Referencing a Gladwell reporting mistake in which Gladwell refers to "eigenvalue" as "Igon Value", Pinker criticizes his lack of expertise: "I will call this the Igon Value Problem: when a writer's education on a topic consists in interviewing an expert, he is apt to offer generalizations that are banal, obtuse or flat wrong." A writer in The Independent accused Gladwell of posing "obvious" insights.{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/book-of-the-week-outliers-by-malcolm-gladwell-1027343.html|work=The Independent|location=London, UK|title=Book of the Week: Outliers, By Malcolm Gladwell|first=Boyd|last=Tonkin|date=21 November 2008|access-date=12 May 2010}} The Register has accused Gladwell of making arguments by weak analogy and commented Gladwell has an "aversion for fact", adding: "Gladwell has made a career out of handing simple, vacuous truths to people and dressing them up with flowery language and an impressionistic take on the scientific method."{{cite web|last=Vance|first= Ashlee|author-link=Ashlee Vance|url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/20/freak_tipping_point/ |title=Abortion or Broken Windows – How can the US be safer?|website=The Register|date= 20 January 2007}} In that regard, The New Republic has called him "America's Best-Paid Fairy-Tale Writer".Gray, John (22 November 2013), [https://newrepublic.com/article/115467/malcolm-gladwells-david-and-goliath-fairy-tales "Malcolm Gladwell Is America's Best-Paid Fairy-Tale Writer"], New Republic. Retrieved 17 January 2016. His approach was satirized by the online site "The Malcolm Gladwell Book Generator".{{cite web|url=http://malcolmgladwellbookgenerator.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110207221117/http://www.malcolmgladwellbookgenerator.com/|url-status=dead|archive-date=7 February 2011|title=The Malcolm Gladwell Book Generator|publisher=The Malcolm Gladwell Book Generator|access-date=9 July 2013}}

In 2005, Gladwell commanded a $45,000 speaking fee.Paul Wilner (30 January 2005), "[http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/01/30/LVGIDAUHH81.DTL&ao=all In the 'Blink' of an eye: Malcolm Gladwell on the power of first impression]", San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 10 June 2012. In 2008, he was making "about 30 speeches a year—most for tens of thousands of dollars, some for free", according to a profile in New York magazine.{{cite web|url=https://nymag.com/arts/books/features/52014/|title=Geek Pop Star|last=Zengerle|first=Jason|date=7 November 2008 |publisher=Nymag.com|access-date=9 July 2013}} In 2011, he gave three talks to groups of small businessmen as part of a three-city speaking tour put on by Bank of America. The program was titled "Bank of America Small Business Speaker Series: A Conversation with Malcolm Gladwell"."[http://mediaroom.bankofamerica.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=234503&p=irol-newsarticle&ID=1631079 Bank of America Features Malcolm Gladwell in Speaker Series for Local Small Business Owners]{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}", Bank of America, 16 November 2011; accessed 3 July 2012. Paul Starobin, writing in the Columbia Journalism Review, said the engagement's "entire point seemed to be to forge a public link between a tarnished brand (the bank), and a winning one (a journalist often described in profiles as the epitome of cool)".Paul Starobin (March/April 2012), "[https://www.cjr.org/feature/money_talks_marchapril2012.php?page=all Money Talks: If you cover Wall Street, should you take Wall Street speaking fees?]", Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved 10 June 2012. An article by Melissa Bell of The Washington Post posed the question: "Malcolm Gladwell: Bank of America's new spokesman?"Bell, Melissa (16 November 2011), "[https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/malcolm-gladwell-bank-of-americas-new-spokesman/2011/11/16/gIQAAE0ASN_blog.html Malcolm Gladwell: Bank of America's new spokesman?]", The Washington Post. Retrieved 10 June 2012. Mother Jones editor Clara Jeffery said Gladwell's job for Bank of America had "terrible ethical optics". However, Gladwell says he was unaware that Bank of America was "bragging about his speaking engagements" until the Atlantic Wire emailed him. Gladwell explained:

{{blockquote|I did a talk about innovation for a group of entrepreneurs in Los Angeles a while back, sponsored by Bank of America. They liked the talk, and asked me to give the same talk at two more small business events—in Dallas and yesterday in D.C. That's the extent of it. No different from any other speaking gig. I haven't been asked to do anything else and imagine that's it.Estes, Adam Clark (16 November 2011), [http://www.theatlanticwire.com/business/2011/11/malcolm-gladwell-bank-america-deal-bragging/45081 "Malcolm Gladwell had no idea Bank of America was bragging about him"], Atlantic Wire. Retrieved 13 June 2012.}}

In 2012, CBS's 60 Minutes attributed the trend of American parents "redshirting" their five-year-olds (postponing entrance into kindergarten to give them an advantage) to a section in Gladwell's Outliers.{{cite news|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kindergarten-redshirting-what-would-you-do/|publisher=CBS News |work=60 Minutes|title = Kindergarten 'redshirting'. What would you do?|date=2 September 2012}}

Sociology professor Shayne Lee referenced Outliers in a CNN editorial commemorating Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday. Lee discussed the strategic timing of King's ascent from a "Gladwellian perspective".{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/16/opinion/lee-mlk-youth|title=MLK, born at just the right time|work=CNN|first=Shayne|last=Lee|date=16 January 2012|access-date=24 July 2013}} Gladwell gives credit to Richard Nisbett and Lee Ross for inventing the Gladwellian genre.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/books/review/malcolm-gladwell-by-the-book.html|title=Malcolm Gladwell: By the Book |work=The New York Times|date=3 October 2013|access-date=23 November 2013 }}

Gladwell has provided blurbs for "scores of book covers", leading The New York Times to ask, "Is it possible that Mr. Gladwell has been spreading the love a bit too thinly?" Gladwell, who said he did not know how many blurbs he had written, acknowledged, "The more blurbs you give, the lower the value of the blurb. It's the tragedy of the commons."{{cite news|author=Holson, Laura M.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/17/fashion/malcolm-gladwell-hands-out-book-blurbs-like-santa-does-presents.html|title=Malcolm Gladwell Hands Out Book Blurbs Like Santa Does Presents|newspaper=The New York Times|date=16 December 2015 |access-date=23 January 2016}}

Gladwell is host of the podcast Revisionist History, initially produced through Panoply Media and now through Gladwell's own podcast company. It began in 2016 and has aired seven 10-episode seasons. Each episode begins with an inquiry about a person, event, or idea, and proceeds to question the received wisdom about the subject. Gladwell was recruited to create a podcast by Jacob Weisberg, editor-in-chief of The Slate Group, which also includes the podcast network Panoply Media. In September 2018, Gladwell announced he was co-founding a podcast company, later named Pushkin Industries,{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/09/business/media/podcasts-daily-newsier-washington-post-npr.html|title=Podcasts Are Getting Newsier|last=Pesier|first=Jacklyn|date=9 December 2018|work=The New York Times|access-date=31 December 2018}} with Weisberg.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/12/business/media/jacob-weisberg-slate-malcolm-gladwell.html|title=Jacob Weisberg Leaves Slate to Join Maclolm Gladwell in Podcast Venture|last=Peiser|first=Jaclyn|date=12 September 2018|work=The New York Times|access-date=31 December 2018}} About this decision, Gladwell told the Los Angeles Times: "There is a certain kind of whimsy and emotionality that can only be captured on audio."{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-mainland-optimism-podcast-revolution-20181230-story.html|title=Why the podcast revolution is here to stay|date=30 December 2018|first= Lexi|last= Mainland

|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=10 January 2019}}

He also has a music podcast with Bruce Headlam and Rick Rubin, titled Broken Record where they interview musicians.Woods, Sean (25 November 2018). [https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/malcolm-gladwell-podcast-broken-record-758875/ "Malcolm Gladwell on 'Broken Record' Podcast, Hanging Out With Musicians"], Rolling Stone. It has two seasons, 2018–2019 and 2020 with a total of 49 episodes.{{cite web |url=https://brokenrecordpodcast.com |title = Broken Record Podcast – Pushkin Industries}}

The Unusual Suspects with Kenya Barris and Malcom Gladwell, premiered January 30, 2025. The podcast features candid interviews with influential figures across a spectrum of disciplines. A common thread throughout these interviews are discussions about each subject's path to success. Interview subjects have ranged from trailblazing Fortune 500 CEO Ursula Burns to hip hop recording artist and producer Dr. Dre.{{cite web |last=Campione |first=Katie |date=9 March 2025 |title=‘The Unusual Suspects’ Hosts Kenya Barris & Malcolm Gladwell Are Using Their Podcast As A Way Of “Vicariously Experiencing Someone Else’s Interests” — SXSW Studio |url=https://deadline.com/video/the-unusual-suspects-kenya-barris-malcolm-gladwell-sxsw-studio/ |website=Deadline |quote=In just the first seven episodes of their new podcast The Unusual Suspects, Kenya Barris and Malcolm Gladwell have welcomed a broad range of guests from a Fortune 500 CEO to an Olympic gold medalist to a renowned chef. |location= |publisher= |access-date=17 April 2025}}

Gladwell is a Christian.{{Cite web |date=9 October 2013 |title=Interview: Malcolm Gladwell on his return to faith while writing 'David and Goliath' |url=https://religionnews.com/2013/10/09/interview-malcolm-gladwell-return-faith-writing-david-goliath/ |first=Sarah Pulliam |last=Bailey|access-date=19 December 2022 |website=Religion News Service |language=en-US}} His family attended Above Bar Church in Southampton, U.K., and later Gale Presbyterian in Elmira when they moved to Canada. His parents and siblings are part of the Mennonite community in Southwestern Ontario. Gladwell wandered away from his Christian roots when he moved to New York, only to rediscover his faith during the writing of David and Goliath and his encounter with Wilma Derksen regarding the death of her child.{{cite magazine|last=Gladwell|first=Malcolm|date=January–February 2014|title=How I Rediscovered Faith|url=https://relevantmagazine.com/life5/malcolm-gladwell-how-i-rediscovered-faith/|magazine=Relevant|issue=67|access-date=20 September 2020}}

Gladwell was a national class runner and an Ontario High School (Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations – OFSAA) champion.{{Cite web|url=https://runningmagazine.ca/the-scene/malcolm-gladwell-i-would-rather-be-a-mediocre-runner-than-a-good-one/|title=Malcolm Gladwell: 'I would rather be a mediocre runner than a good one'|date=5 February 2019|first=Madeleine|last= Kelly|website=Canadian Running Magazine|language=en-US|access-date=8 July 2019}} He was among Canada's fastest teenagers at 1500 metres, running 4:14 at the age of 13 and 4:05 when aged 14. At university, Gladwell ran 1500 metres in 3:55. In 2014, at the age of 51, he ran a 4:54 at the Fifth Avenue Mile.{{Cite web|url=https://www.menshealth.com/fitness/a19516426/malcolm-gladwell/|title=This Best-Selling Author Is Fast—Really Fast|date=18 September 2014|website=Men's Health}}{{Cite web |title=Athlinks |url=https://www.athlinks.com/search/unclaimed/?category=unclaimed&term=Malcolm%20Gladwell |access-date=19 December 2022 |website=www.athlinks.com |language=en}} At 57 he ran a 5:15 mile.Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211205/LFFP5Y7DpFA Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20210530125258/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFFP5Y7DpFA&gl=US&hl=en Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFFP5Y7DpFA| title = Malcolm Gladwell Runs 5:15 Mile At 57 Years Old, Dusts CITIUS MAG's Chris Chavez in Exhibition Race | website=YouTube| date = 24 May 2021 }}{{cbignore}}

He had his first child, a daughter, in 2022.{{Cite web |title=Malcolm Gladwell Returns |url=https://armchairexpertpod.com/pods/malcolm-gladwell-returns-2 |access-date=12 August 2022 |first=Dax |last=Shepard|website=Armchair Expert |date=28 July 2022 |language=en-US}} In 2024 it was reported that "In a span of five years, he got engaged, had two children, turned 61, and moved from Manhattan to pastoral Hudson, New York.".{{cite news |last1=Pogue |first1=David |title=Malcolm Gladwell's life has changed; he has not |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/malcolm-gladwell-revenge-of-the-tipping-point/ |access-date=12 January 2025 |work=CBS News |date=29 September 2024}}

Gladwell is passionate about cars and reading car magazines, particularly the British magazine Car.{{cite web | url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/books/article/malcolm-gladwell-i-never-get-good-reviews-f86j6glvp | title=Malcolm Gladwell: 'I never get good reviews' | date=20 February 2025 }}

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In 2005, Time named Gladwell one of its 100 most influential people.{{cite web |title=The 2005 TIME 100 |url=https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,1972656,00.html |website=time.com |publisher=TIME USA, LLC |access-date=2 April 2025}}

In 2007, he received the American Sociological Association's first Award for Excellence in the Reporting of Social Issues.{{cite web |last1=Spar |first1=Daniel |title=Footnotes Volume 35 Number 8 |url=https://www.asanet.org/wp-content/uploads/fn_2007_08.pdf |website=American Sociological Association |access-date=2 April 2025}} The same year, he received an honorary degree from the University of Waterloo.

In 2011, he was named a Member of the Order of Canada, the second highest honour for merit in the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada.

He has received honorary degrees from the University of Waterloo (2007){{cite web |date=2 May 2007 |title=UW awards 17 honorary degrees at spring convocation |url=http://newsrelease.uwaterloo.ca/news.php?id=4861 |access-date=17 January 2009 |publisher=University of Waterloo}}{{Cite web|date=7 March 2012|title=When Gladwell speaks, leaders listen|url=https://uwaterloo.ca/alumni/when-gladwell-speaks-leaders-listen|access-date=14 January 2022|website=Alumni|language=en}} and the University of Toronto (2011).{{Cite web |last=Byers |first=Rebecca |date=20 March 2012 |title=Malcolm Gladwell Discusses Core Human Problems and Social Media |url=https://www.keynotespeak.com/keynote/malcolm-gladwell2 |access-date=10 April 2025 |website=Keynote Speak |language=en}}

His is a recipient of the 2024 Audio Vanguard Award presented by On Air Fest.{{cite web |author= |date=9 March 2025 |title=Malcolm Gladwell Honored with 2024 Audio Vanguard Award |url=https://www.onairfest.com/ava-awardees/malcolm-gladwell |website=On Air Fest |quote=On Air Fest proudly announces the recipient of the 2024 Audio Vanguard Award is Malcolm Gladwell. Gladwell is a journalist, speaker, New York Times bestselling author, hit podcast host and the Co-Founder of Pushkin Industries. |location= |publisher= |access-date=17 April 2025}}

• {{cite book |author=Gladwell, Malcolm |title= The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference |location= Boston |publisher=Little, Brown |year= 2000 | isbn = 0-316-31696-2 |ref=none}}
• {{cite book |author=Gladwell, Malcolm | author-mask=1 |title= Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking |location=New York |publisher= Little, Brown |year= 2005 | isbn = 0-316-17232-4 |ref=none}}
• {{cite book |author=Gladwell, Malcolm | author-mask=1 |title= Outliers: The Story of Success |location=New York |publisher= Little, Brown & Co. |year= 2008 | isbn = 978-0-316-01792-3 |ref=none}}
• {{cite book |author=Gladwell, Malcolm | author-mask=1 |title= What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures |location= New York |publisher= Little, Brown & Co. |year= 2009 | isbn = 978-0-316-07584-8 |ref=none}}
• {{cite book |author=Gladwell, Malcolm | author-mask=1 |title= David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants |location= New York |publisher= Little, Brown & Co. |year=2013 | isbn = 978-0-316-20436-1 |ref=none}}{{cite news |last= Lee |first= Stephen |title= 'Tipping Point' author Malcolm Gladwell's next book announced |url=http://shelf-life.ew.com/2012/07/09/tipping-point-author-malcolm-gladwells-next-book-announced/|access-date= 9 July 2012 |newspaper= Entertainment Weekly |date= 3 August 2012}}
• {{cite book |author=Gladwell, Malcolm | author-mask=1 |title= Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know |location= New York |publisher=Little, Brown & Co. |year=2019 |isbn = 978-0-316-47852-6 |ref=none}}
• {{cite book |author=Gladwell, Malcolm | author-mask=1 |title= The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War |location= New York |publisher=Little, Brown & Co. |year=2021 |isbn = 978-0-316-29661-8 |ref=none}}
• {{cite book |author=Gladwell, Malcolm | author-mask=1 |title= Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering |location= New York |publisher=Little, Brown & Co. |year=2024 |isbn = 978-0-316-57580-5 |ref=none}}

• Miracle and Wonder: Conversations with Paul Simon
• I Hate the Ivy League: Riffs and Rants on Elite Education{{cite web | url=https://www.pushkin.fm/hosts/malcolm-gladwell | title=Malcolm Gladwell – Audiobooks & Podcasts }}

• {{cite magazine |last1=Gladwell |first1=Malcolm |title=The Ketchup Conundrum |magazine=The New Yorker |date=6 September 2004 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/09/06/the-ketchup-conundrum |access-date=29 June 2022}}
• {{cite magazine |last= Gladwell |first= Malcolm |author-mask=1 |title=Letter from Saddleback: The Cellular Church: How Rick Warren's congregation grew |magazine=The New Yorker |date=12 September 2005 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/09/12/the-cellular-church |access-date=7 January 2019}}
• {{cite magazine |last= Gladwell |first= Malcolm |author-mask=1 |date= 13 February 2006 |title= Million-Dollar Murray: why problems like homelessness may be easier to solve than to manage |magazine=The New Yorker | url=http://gladwell.com/million-dollar-murray/ |access-date=14 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150318142026/http://gladwell.com/million-dollar-murray/ |archive-date=18 March 2015}}
• {{cite magazine|last=Gladwell |first=Malcolm | author-mask=1 | date= 5 November 2007 | url = https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/11/12/dangerous-minds | title= Dangerous Minds |magazine=The New Yorker | access-date = 19 June 2020}}
• {{cite magazine |last= Gladwell |first= Malcolm |author-mask=1 | url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/10/20/late-bloomers-2?intcid=mod-most-popular | title=Late Bloomers | magazine= The New Yorker| date= 20 October 2008 | access-date= 4 January 2016}}
• {{cite magazine| first = Malcolm | last = Gladwell|author-mask=1 |title = Small Change: Why the revolution will not be tweeted | url = https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/10/04/small-change-malcolm-gladwell | magazine = The New Yorker | date = 4 October 2010| accessdate = 1 May 2024|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110110090738/http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/10/04/101004fa_fact_gladwell?currentPage=all|archivedate=10 January 2011|url-status=dead|url-access=limited}}
• {{cite magazine |last= Gladwell |author-mask=1 |first=Malcolm |date= 14 November 2011 |title= The Tweaker|department= Annals of Technology |magazine= The New Yorker|volume=87 |issue= 36 |pages=32–35 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/11/14/111114fa_fact_gladwell|access-date= 23 April 2014}}
• {{cite magazine |author=Gladwell, Malcolm |author-mask=1 |date=31 March 2014 |title=Sacred and profane: how not to negotiate with believers |department=Annals of Religion |magazine=The New Yorker |volume=90 |issue=6 |pages=22–28 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/03/31/sacred-and-profane-4 }}
• {{cite magazine |last= Gladwell |first= Malcolm |author-mask= 1 |date= 28 July 2014 |title= Trust No One: Kim Philby and the hazards of mistrust |department= The Critics. A Critic at Large |magazine= The New Yorker |volume= 90 |issue= 21 |pages= 70–75 |url= https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/07/28/philby |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140723190902/http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/07/28/philby |url-status=dead |archive-date= 23 July 2014 |access-date= 30 September 2014 }} Includes review of {{cite book |title= A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal |last= MacIntyre |first= Ben |year= 2014 |publisher= Crown |isbn= 978-0-80413663-1 |url= https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780804136631 }}
• {{cite magazine |last= Gladwell |first= Malcolm|author-mask=1 |date=4 May 2015|title=The engineer's lament: two ways of thinking about automotive safety |department= Dept. of Transportation |magazine= The New Yorker|volume=91 |issue= 11 |pages= 46–55|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/04/the-engineers-lament|access-date=1 July 2015}}
• {{cite magazine |author=Gladwell, Malcolm |author-mask=1 |date=26 December 2016 |title=The outside man: what's the difference between Daniel Ellsberg and Edward Snowden? |department=The Critics. A Critic at Large |magazine=The New Yorker |volume=92 |issue=42 |pages=119–125 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/12/19/daniel-ellsberg-edward-snowden-and-the-modern-whistle-blower }}Online version is titled "Daniel Ellsberg, Edward Snowden, and the Modern Whistle-Blower".

• {{cite AV media|last= Gladwell |first=Malcolm |title= Revisionist History |publisher= The Slate Group |year= 2016 |ref=none}}
• {{cite AV media|last= Gladwell |first=Malcolm |first2=Rick |last2=Rubin |name-list-style=amp |title= Broken Record |publisher= Pushkin Industries |year= 2018|ref=none}}{{Cite web|url=https://cms.megaphone.fm/channel/broken-record|title=Megaphone: A Modern Podcasting Platform by Panoply}}
• {{cite AV media|last=Barris |first=Kenya |first2=Gladwell |last2=Malcolm |name-list-style=amp |title= The Unusual Suspects with Kenya Barris and Malcolm Gladwell |publisher= Khalabo Productions, Inc |year= 2025|ref=none}}

• The Missionary (2013, TV movie){{citation needed|date=August 2021}}

Gladwell was a featured storyteller for the Moth podcast. He told a story about a well-intentioned wedding toast for a young man and his friends that went wrong.[http://themoth.org/posts/storytellers/malcolm-gladwell Malcolm Gladwell], TheMoth.org; accessed 17 January 2016.

Gladwell was featured in General Motors "EVerybody in." campaign.[https://twitter.com/GM/status/1347597790638010370], twitter.com;

Gladwell is the only guest to have been featured as a headliner at every OZY Fest festival{{Cite web|title=OZY Fest 2020 Lineup|url=https://www.ozy.com/ozyfestlineup/|access-date=2 April 2021|website=OZY|language=en-US}}—an annual music and ideas festival produced by OZY Media—other than OZY co-founder and CEO Carlos Watson. Gladwell has also appeared on several television shows for OZY Media, including the Carlos Watson Show (YouTube){{Citation|title=Malcolm Gladwell's Surprising Solutions for Racial Harmony| date=10 August 2020 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I12KH7HdZNg|language=en|access-date=2 April 2021}}{{cbignore}}{{Dead YouTube link|date=February 2022}} and Third Rail With OZY (PBS).{{Cite web|title=Third Rail with OZY|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/third-rail/home/|access-date=2 April 2021|website=Third Rail with OZY {{!}} Official Site {{!}} PBS|archive-date=13 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210413084628/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/third-rail/home/|url-status=dead}}

Gladwell has a chapter giving advice in Tim Ferriss's book Tools of Titans.

Gladwell was voiced by Colton Dunn in Solar Opposites S3.E1 The Extremity Triangulator.{{cite web | url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12753254/ | title=The Extremity Triangulator | website=IMDb }}

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