Adam Gopnik
The New Yorker
New York, NY, United States
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What We Can Learn from London’s Smoke-Filled Skies
Adam Gopnik on Charles Dickens’s “Bleak House,” and what the historical response to pollution in London can teach us about dealing with modern environmental hazards. → Read More
Peter Foley, a Gifted Composer Gone Too Soon
In the summer of his death, Peter Foley and I talked about the shape of an artist’s life made under the special pressures of the modern musical theatre. → Read More
How Andy Warhol Turned the Supreme Court Justices Into Art Critics
Adam Gopnik on the Supreme Court’s decision on a copyright-infringement case concerning an Andy Warhol work based on a portrait of Prince by Lynn Goldsmith. → Read More
How to Quit Cars
Adam Gopnik reviews “Carmageddon,” by Daniel Knowles, and “Paved Paradise,” by Henry Grabar, and considers the shortsighted history of transportation and the possibilities for its future. → Read More
Remembering Bruce McCall, Satirist and Compleat Canadian
For McCall, the business of getting it down right was a form of self-salvation. → Read More
The “We❤️NYC” Logo Flop
Adam Gopnik writes about the new “We❤️NYC” logo, a reinvention of the original “I❤️NY” logo, also known as “I Heart NY” or “I Love NY” designed by Milton Glaser. → Read More
How the Graphic Designer Milton Glaser Made America Cool Again
From the poster that turned Bob Dylan into an icon to the logo that helped revive a flagging city, he gave sharp outlines to the spirit of an age. → Read More
Is Artificial Light Poisoning the Planet?
A Swedish ecologist argues that its ubiquity is wrecking our habitats—and our health. → Read More
Burt Bacharach’s Distinctive Melodic Voice
Adam Gopnik on the songwriter Burt Bacharach, who died on Wednesday, and whose sound, Gopnik says, was as singular as that of a composer like George Gershwin. → Read More
The Delight of Edward Hopper’s Solitude
Adam Gopnik writes that “Edward Hopper’s New York,” a new show at the Whitney Museum of American Art, reveals what we’ve been missing during the coronavirus pandemic. → Read More
What Hollywood’s Ultimate Oral History Reveals
For all the clouds of publicity, the dream machine is actually a craft business. Have we asked too much of it? Adam Gopnik on “Hollywood: The Oral History,” by Jeanine Basinger and Sam Wasson. → Read More
What the Suzuki Method Really Taught
A new biography of the program’s creator argues that reducing it to a system of music instruction misses its underlying point about human potential. → Read More
Learning to Love the Upside-Down Mondrian
Adam Gopnik on the the Piet Mondrian painting that may have been hung upside down, and on the climate-change protests that involve vandalizing famous art works. → Read More
How Samuel Adams Helped Ferment a Revolution
A virtuoso of the eighteenth-century version of viral memes and fake news, he had a sense of political theatre that helped create a radical new reality. → Read More
Annie Ernaux’s Justly Deserved Nobel
Adam Gopnik writes about the work of the French writer Annie Ernaux, who won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature, and the ascendancy of the memoir as the leading genre of our time. → Read More
Calling Trump the F-Word
Adam Gopnik writes about the fascist nature of Trumpism, and the necessity of confronting the former President Donald Trump’s dangerous style of politics. → Read More
Can’t We Come Up with Something Better Than Liberal Democracy?
The West’s favored form of self-government is looking creaky. A legal scholar and a philosopher propose some alternatives. → Read More
Salman Rushdie and the Power of Words
Efforts are bound to be made to somehow equalize or level the acts of Rushdie and his tormentors and would-be executioners. This is a despicable viewpoint. → Read More
Joni Mitchell Lights Up Newport Folk Festival
We never expected to see her onstage and performing again like we did last weekend. → Read More
The Giant Art of Claes Oldenburg
Adam Gopnik writes a postscript for the artist Claes Oldenberg, known for his contributions to Pop art and his gigantic structures of items nodding to American culture, such as shuttlecocks and a clothespin, that have since become roadside attractions. → Read More