Rental show Vancouver Playhouse

Malcolm Gladwell

November 24, 2026

Venue: Vancouver Playhouse

The Vancouver Writers Fest presents Malcolm Gladwell 

The American Way of Killing

From New York Times bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell comes his most urgent book yet: a provocative investigation of America’s epidemic of gun violence. In The American Way of Killing, Gladwell explores the American “peculiarity”—how the world’s wealthiest country came to suffer from a problem typically only seen in the world’s poorest countries.

Drawing on original interviews, archival and social science research, and his trademark insight, Gladwell approaches the American paradox through a series of stories. In a sweeping narrative that travels across the United States, Gladwell paints a picture of a country that does not understand its most pressing social problem, and as result, does not understand how to fix it. A member of the Order of Canada and one of TIME’s 100 most inf