Adam Gopnik

published in The New Yorker
Gopnik reviews two new books: John Sedgwick's "From the River to the Sea" (Avid Reader) and Michael Hiltzik's "Iron Empires" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). Gopnik compares the rise of railroads across America to the "infrastructure" questions we are now facing in politics.
1199 days ago

published in The New Yorker
Gopnick attends two events in New York City: a comedy club and a concert. Both are heavily influenced by the restrictions demanded by COVID-19, so he contemplates what these changes could mean for both the short and long term.
1206 days ago

published in The New Yorker
Gopnik looks at the book "The Mysterious Correspondent," recently brought into English. These are Proust's "nine stories, mostly fragmentary, mostly unpublished, that have only recently been re-discovered, appearing as something between juvenilia and a sketchbook." Gopnik is suspicious of modern culture's infatuation with Proust, and looks to analyze his life to contextualize this new book and the rest of Proust's work.
1238 days ago