This year's lectures, which begin tonight and run all week, are written and delivered by Adam Gopnik, an author and writer with the New Yorker magazine, who grew up in Montreal and attended McGill.

When I saw the title of longtime New Yorker writer and cultural essayist Adam Gopnik’s slim new volume, “All That Happiness Is,” the song “Happiness” from the musical “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown ...

In Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life, Adam Gopnik calls Charles Darwin a “pointillist” because he made grand theory out of tiny details, a method with which I ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Adam Gopnik discusses his book “At the Strangers’ Gate with host Richard Wolinsky, recorded September 12, 2017. First posted October 19, 2017. Adam Gopnik has been a staff writer for the New Yorker ...

Adam Gopnik has been a contributor for The New Yorker magazine since 1986. The intellectual polyglot has written nonfiction, fiction, criticism, book reviews, first-person essays, foreign ...

Adam Gopnik is one of our most esteemed and well-liked man of letters. Having come to prominence as a writer for *The New Yorker* since 1986 and first and foremost an observer of American life, he ...