
Adam Gopnik
Staff Writer, The New Yorker; Author, At the Strangers' Gate
Adam Gopnik isa staff writer for The New Yorker, since 1986, and an author and essayist. His books include Paris to the Moon, The Table Comes First, and a memoir, At the Strangers Gate. Gopnik’s work has been anthologized in Best American Essays, Best American Travel Writing, Best American Sports Writing, Best American Food Writing, and Best American Spiritual Writing. He has won the National Magazine Award for Essays and for Criticism three times, as well as the George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting and Canadian National Magazine Award Gold Medal for arts writing. In 2013, Gopnik was awarded France’s Chevalier medal of the Order of Arts and Letters.
Previously

2019 Festival
The Artistry of Edmund de Waal
Video — 48m 20s

2019 Festival
Formidable or Fractured? The Democrats and the Road to 2020
Video — 57m 28s

2019 Festival
A Thousand Small Sanities
Video — 59m 13s

2019 Festival
The Promise of Parallel Polis
Audio — 47m

2018 Festival
Deep Dive: The Genius of Soul
Video — 1h 13m 41s

2018 Festival
The Mystery of Mastery
Video — 52m 48s