RaveThe Globe and Mail (CAN)... the sentences...make reading him such a joy ... This is no beginner. Stories such as these are deep, rich, sad and funny and a reminder of why this unpopular genre [of short fiction] continues to fascinate the most sophisticated of writers.
Malcolm Gladwell
PositiveThe Globe and MailThe thesis of Malcolm Gladwell’s new book, Talking To Strangers, is straightforward ... But to get to this useful and progressive conclusion, Gladwell meanders through history, telling stories of spy catchers and lie detectors, of Chamberlain being duped by Hitler, of the Jerry Sandusky sex-abuse scandal at Penn State University, of facial analysis of the actors on Friends. These stories range from scientific to anecdotal, and they are all interesting in their own right ... The great pleasure of this book...is not the clarity of this argument but its more-or-less relevant detours, the entertaining histories that sometimes only vaguely back up the thesis ... factoids and anecdotes are immensely entertaining. Gladwell’s writing is itself entertaining—it is clear and dramatic at the same time.
