Guardian Weekly

Viral phenomena

Time of anxiety

A family travel on the New York subway during the pandemic

(MARY ALTAFFER/AP)

ertain creative works possess such an endless ability to ricochet, that they become embedded in the culture. One such book is Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point. Published more than two decades ago, it explored a dazzling range of topics, from crime rates in New York to shoe sales, all through the lens of epidemiology. “[T]he best way to understand […] any

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