Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm Gladwell returns to examine one of America’s deadliest and most polarizing issues: gun violence. In his new book, The American Way of Killing, Gladwell investigates the paradox of a country with huge wealth that still has high violence rates, finding fascinating origins, revealing stories, and hope for the future.

Malcolm Gladwell has become one of the world’s most beloved and influential thinkers through his insightful analyses on complex, polarizing, and urgent topics. A finalist for both the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award, Gladwell’s books, including Outliers and The Tipping Point, have expanded conversations around everything from criminal justice to human consciousness. In 2016, he created the podcast “Revisionist History,” interviewing everyone from historians to runners, diving into what makes people, and the world, work.
On October 3, 2026, Malcolm Gladwell came to the Sydney Goldstein Theater in San Francisco for an onstage conversation with journalist Lisa Armstrong, a professor at UC Berkeley.