In 2011, the celebrate the fiftieth anniversary with bestselling author, essayist and cultural observer . A transplanted Canadian and writer for the New Yorker, has won the National Magazine Award for Essays and for Criticism three times, and the George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting. He is is the author of the international bestseller Paris to the Moon; Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New York; and Angels and Ages: A Short Book about Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life.
In this year's ,Winter, he takes us on an intimate tour of the artists, poets, composers, writers, explorers, scientists and thinkers who helped shape a new and modern idea of winter. An enchanting homage to an idea of a season and captivating journey through the modern imagination.
In his new book, The Table Comes First, Gopnik delivers a beguiling tour of the morals and manners of our present, and perhaps misguided, food manias. He argues we are losing sight of a timeless truth: what goes on around the table (family life, conversation) is as important as what we put on the table. How we eat, not what we eat, ultimately defines us.
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Transplanted Canadian, New Yorker writer and author of Paris to the Moon, Gopnik is publishing this major new work of narrative non-fiction alongside his 2011 Massey Lecture. An illuminat...
The 2011 CBC Massey Lectures celebrates fifty years with bestselling author, essayist, cultural observer, and famed New Yorker contributor Adam Gopnik, whose subject is winter -- the sea...
In 1995 Gopnik was offered the plush assignment of writing the "Paris Journals" for the New Yorker. He spent five years in Paris with his wife and son writing the dispatches now collected...
Following Adam Gopnik's best-selling Paris to the Moon, the adventure continues against the panorama of another storied city. Autumn, 2000: the Gopnik family moves back to a New York that...
In this captivating double life, Adam Gopnik searches for the men behind the icons of emancipation and evolution. Born by cosmic coincidence on the same day in 1809 and separated by an oc...
