Over the weekend, renowned Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker penned a reasonably critical review of Malcolm Gladwell‘s latest, What The Dog Saw. But whereas many “bad” reviews resort to sloppy or sound like the settling of personal scores, Pinker’s substantive piece has already garnered a response from the author in the form of a letter to the editor of the New York Times. Hooray for civil, engaging debate!

Best-selling pop psychologist/author Malcolm Gladwell has announced plans for his next book, What the Dog Saw, which will be published this fall. But not unlike an early album leak for a recording artist, Gladwell’s new book is already available online in its entirety, and The New Yorker, where Gladwell is a staff writer, is to blame. Are his publishers just trying to sell us a Greatest Hits collection of stories all available online for free?