Some chapters [in Malcolm Gladwell’s What the Dog Saw–And Other Adventures] are master pieces in the art of the essay. I particularly liked “Something Borrowed,†a moving examination of the elusive line between artistic influence and plagiarism, and “Dangerous Minds,†a suspenseful tale of criminal profiling that shows how self-anointed experts can delude their clients and themselves with elastic predictions.
So says Steven Pinker in his New York Times review of the book.