Adam Gopnik

Steve Martin is more candid than he’s ever been about his creative life—in this engrossing audio-biography centered around a series of conversations recorded over many afternoons at home with his friend and neighbor, writer Adam Gopnik....

A Thousand Small Sanities is a manifesto rooted in the lives of people who invented and extended the liberal tradition. Taking us from Montaigne to Mill, and from Middlemarch to the civil rights movement, Adam Gopnik argues that liberalism is not a form of centrism....

Paris. The name alone conjures images of chestnut-lined boulevards, sidewalk cafés, breathtaking façades around every corner....

From his hardscrabble post-World War II Ontario childhood to Mad Men-era New York City and the creative pinnacle of advertising, to the hallowed halls of Saturday Night Live and The New Yorker, Bruce McCall’s personal and creative journey is inspiring....

Written 200 years after Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln shared a birthday, this insightful account sheds new light on the two men....

Longtime New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik investigates a foundational human question....

From New Yorker staff writer Adam Gopnik comes a concise, elegant volume presenting a radical alternative to our culture of relentless striving.

When Adam Gopnik and his soon-to-be-wife, Martha, left the comforts of home in Montreal for New York, the city then, much like today, was a pilgrimage site for the young and the arty....

Adam Gopnik has written for the New Yorker since 1986. In this work, Gopnik charts America’s transformation from being simply aware of what they eat to being obsessive about it....

"Through The Children's Gate" is a short story from the collection Central Park....