Earlier this week, I attended a reading at The Strand for Adam Gopnik's new book, The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food. The book is an intellectual dive into the history of ...

When I heard last year that Adam Gopnik was writing a “stirring defense of liberalism” titled A Thousand Small Sanities, I had many questions. How would he turn liberalism into a story about his kids ...

Adam Gopnik's long essay on atheism in The New Yorker, which is alternately insightful and frustrating, has already elicited responses from people as, er, different as Ross Douthat and Jerry Coyne.

While the election was ugly in its vociferousness, Gopnik says it was beautiful in the passions it evoked. On the Republican side, Gopnik said the election was passionate. On the President's side, he ...

To many, Adam Gopnik has mastered the art of writing. He’s been a writer, essayist and critic for The New Yorker since 1986, and plays himself critiquing Cate Blanchett’s imperious composer Lydia Tár ...

This week in the magazine, Adam Gopnik writes about the relationship between atheism and religious belief, and reviews two new books about the history of atheism. On the New Yorker Out Loud podcast, ...

In Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life, Adam Gopnik calls Charles Darwin a “pointillist” because he made grand theory out of tiny details, a method with which I ...

The idea that it can be bounded in by honest conservatives in a Cabinet or restrained by normal constitutional limits is unsupported by history. “Yes, we should go there,” Gopnik wrote. The worst ...

If you are a recent New York transplant who has found yourself possessed with longing for a time when the city must have felt more authentic, when you might have wandered the streets with great minds, ...