The Cove, if you haven’t seen it – and you probably haven’t, since the documentary seems not to be doing so well in theatres, despite being as gripping and watchable as a Bourne movie – concerns the efforts of a group of environmentalists, led by former dolphin trainer, now dolphin liberator Ric O’Barry to document the slaughter of dolphins in a well-protected cove in a small village in Japan.
Archive for October 23rd, 2009
Book Review: What the Dog Saw, by Malcolm Gladwell
For someone who entered college with no intention of becoming a writer, Malcolm Gladwell has found remarkable success as the author of three best-selling, non-fiction books, the only three he’s written, as a matter of fact.
His fourth effort, What the Dog Saw (published by Little Brown & Company, available Oct. 20 for $34.99), is a compilation of some of Gladwell’s work as a staff writer with The New Yorker, a position he’s held since 1996. Readers of his previous works — The Tipping Point, Blink and Outliers — will recognize Gladwell’s fluid storytelling, accessible style and keen insights in the 400-plus pages of What the Dog Saw.
