Female Chicago Comics Panel, Chiang Mai Thai New Year Celebration, and more happenings from May 1-4.
Tag: Malcolm Gladwell
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Lois Weisberg: Rest in peace doesn’t cut it
Longtime Chicago Commissioner of Cultural Affairs Lois Weisberg died Wednesday, at age 90.
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Chicago stories in the New Yorker archive to read right now
The New Yorker opened its archives and it’s a longread lovers dream come true.
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Without le Carré, would we have The Americans?
When spies had to choose—marriage or the cold war?
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Pseudoscience in the New York Times
Fanciful scientific claims fire up neurons in the corpus credulous, which controls e-mailing.
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Dinner & a Show: Thursday 1/20
Recommended entertainment paired with nearby restaurants.
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Chicago Best Seller List for the week ending August 16
Hardcover Fiction 1. South of Broad by Pat Conroy2. The Help by Kathryn Stockett3. That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo4. The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larrson5. Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon Note: Russo is scheduled to discuss That Old Cape Magic as part of the Writers on the Record series on […]
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Playing bridge to nowhere
As surely as the byline “O. Henry” one-hundred-and-some years ago guaranteed a short story with a twist at the end, the byline “Malcolm Gladwell” today promises a Different Way of Looking at Things. Gladwell’s latest effort is the New Yorker piece “Cocksure,” which wonders if “the roots of Wall Street’s crisis were not structural or […]
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HGH–what’s the problem?
Malcolm Gladwell offers a word in defense of athletes who have taken human growth hormone.
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Malcolm Gladwell isn’t always right . . .
. . . but now he’s offended the blogosphere. You go, Malcolm!