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.
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How are stories told – and what power and inspirations lie in ancient art forms reinvented? Internationally acclaimed artist, author, and 2019 Harman/Eisner Artist in Residen...
What does the Democratic Party stand for today? Even its most ardent supporters might offer widely divergent answers to this question. Can it form a coherent set of priorities...
Where does classical liberalism come from? What comfort and lessons are we to take from our forebearers? In the aftermath of the 2016 election, acclaimed author and essayist A...
Demagogues promise a return to an imaginary past. The opposite of demagogues — politicians — focus on visions of a glorious future. The New Yorker’s Masha Gessen, author of Th...
Born out of gospel, R&B, and jazz in late 1950s America, soul has permeated music culture so thoroughly that its influence can be heard everywhere from modern country musi...
For years, Adam Gopnik’s writing has delighted with charming and nostalgic observations of our behavior within the world around us. In this lecture, he’ll use findings from a...