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The REVIEW: Malcolm Gladwell's Talking to Strangers —

Do you think you can look someone in the eye and tell if they're lying to you? Malcolm Gladwell talks about how trust, mistrust and myths about both are shaping our society. THE BARNES AND NOBLE REVIEW This episode of B&N Podcast: Talking to Strangers What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know A talk with one of the most influential writers in the world, whose books examine how humans think and behave in ways large and small. REVIEW via B&N: Malcolm Gladwell As a staff writer for the New Yorker and in bestsellers like The Tipping Point, Blink, and Outliers, as well as in his podcast Revisionist History, Gladwell has marshaled the tools of an array of sciences to challenge conventional wisdom about everything from how to spot an art forgery to what makes a basketball team succeed. His new book Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know is his first in six years; its origin, Gladwell writes, was in the author’s confrontati...

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