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I’ve long admired Gladwell’s work in The New Yorker, which employs many of the same literary techniques but is more persuasive, perhaps, because it is more contained and less ambitious. “David and Goliath,” on the other hand, is at once deeply repetitive and a bewildering sprawl. There are chapters, especially toward the end, whose relation to the rest of the book are hard to ascertain, even with his constant guidance.

Maybe what “David and Goliath” really illustrates is that it’s time for Malcolm Gladwell to find a new shtick.

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– http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/13/books/review/malcolm-gladwells-david-and-goliath.html?pagewanted=2&ref=todayspaper