American Originals

By Adam Gopnik

Paris to the Moon

By Adam Gopnik

"In 1995, Adam Gopnik, his wife, and their infant son left the familiar comforts and hassles of New York City for the urbane glamour of the City of Light. His was above all a personal pilgrimage to...

Evidence

By Mary Shanahan, Richard Avedon, Adam Gopnik, Jane Livingston

The king in the window

By Adam Gopnik

Eleven-year-old Oliver, an American boy residing in Paris, discovers, much to his astonishment, that phantoms live within the windowpanes and have selected Oliver to lead a war against the "soul-st...

The king in the window

By Adam Gopnik

Eleven-year-old Oliver, an American boy residing in Paris, discovers, much to his astonishment, that phantoms live within the windowpanes and have selected Oliver to lead a war against the "soul-st...

Modern Art and Popular Culture Readings in High and Low

By Kirk Varnedoe, Adam Gopnik

High Low

By Kirk Varnedoe, Adam Gopnik

Through the children s gate

By Adam Gopnik

Following Gopnik's 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 seems, at first, safer and...

At the Strangers' Gate

By Adam Gopnik

From The New York Times best-selling author of Paris to the Moon and beloved New Yorker writer, a memoir that captures the romance of New York City in the 1980s. When Adam Gopnik and his soon-to-be...

Through the Children's Gate

By Adam Gopnik

Not long after Adam Gopnik returned to New York at the end of 2000 with his wife and two small children, they witnessed one of the great and tragic events of the city’s history. In his sketch...