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Janet Maslin reviews fantastically coiffured New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell's Blink in today's Times.

We're not quite sure what she thinks of the book:

"Every moment —every blink —is composed of a series of discrete moving parts," he writes, "and every one of those parts offers an opportunity for intervention, for reform, and for correction. Is this a sufficiently strong concept to enter the popular lexicon, the way Mr. Gladwell's tipping point has? Probably it is, and probably the book's heavy-handed, didactic moments will only tighten its grasp on conventional wisdom.


Is that a favorable assessment? Probably. Then again, if you blink, you might miss her criticism:

However viable "Blink" may be, it is undercut by naggingly bad grammar. Throughout the book, an editor has allowed Mr. Gladwell to conflate the singular and plural. To make successful decisions, he writes, we need "the ability to know our own mind" and how psychoanalytic patients learn "how their mind works" and so on.


Does she offer that constructively? Probably.
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