Beyond The Tipping Point: Malcolm Gladwell on Covid, Trump and what he got wrong

Sophie McBain

Twenty-five years after his bestselling debut, the author has updated it for ‘a more anxious age’. So which of his theories stood the test of time – and what does he find ‘embarrassing’ to read now?

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/sep/28/beyond-the-tipping-point-malcolm-gladwell-on-covid-trump-and-what-he-got-wrong

 

For the first time, Hong Kong imprisons a journalist for sedition
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The Stand News editors are the first journalists to be convicted of sedition in Hong Kong as China seeks to crush dissent and remake the city in its image.

https://apple.news/A5rv6LqBaS9OSKs5tqLyN8A

 

Smuggled out of a Santa Monica safe, the top-secret documents that changed American history

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-09-14/smuggled-out-of-a-santa-monica-safe-the-top-secret-documents-that-changed-american-history

Elizabeth Strout on 'Mrs. Dalloway' and the Book That Broke Her Heart

The award-winning author of Olive Kitteridge and Tell Me Everything takes our literary survey.

https://apple.news/ALurWdUxeQu-lE6QuBbnjFA

 

Forced to close in China, a beloved bookstore finds a new home — in D.C.


Jifeng Bookstore’s journey from Shanghai to Dupont Circle spanned six years and seven thousand miles.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/09/04/chinese-bookstore-dc-jifeng-books/

 

‘The point is to exist’: W. Paul Coates on his decades running Black Classic Press

Coates has been named the winner of the National Book Foundation’s Literarian Award

https://apple.news/AaAF7tQmUSruwe-JasKBhzg

Last night I sort of wished it’d be raining the next morning, Friday morning, so I could just not go out with the sign. Even though I know that’s what I’m supposed to do. It wasn't raining in the morning. I got up as usual, knowing it’d be a very un-populated Chambers Street and maybe no one expected I’d be there. I reminded myself, as I often do, that I was lucky to have this ‘mission’. I went. Saw a few smiling, appreciative faces. Lucky me. Seriously. Lucky me.