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A list of the published work of Adam Gopnik, American writer and editor.

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (November 2014)

Books

• Gopnik, Adam (1980). Voila Carême. Drawings by Jack Huberman. New York: St. Martin's Press.
• Varnedoe, Kirk & Adam Gopnik, eds. (1990). Modern art and popular culture : readings in high & low. New York: Abrams in association with the Museum of Modern Art.
• Gopnik, Adam (2000). Paris to the Moon. New York: Random House.
• —, ed. (2004). Americans in Paris : a literary anthology. New York: Library of America.
• — (2005). The king in the window. New York: Hyperion Books For Children.
• — (2006). Through the children's gate : a home in New York. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
• — (2009). Angels and ages : a short book about Darwin, Lincoln, and modern life. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
• — (2010). The steps across the water. Illustrated by Bruce McCall. New York: Disney/Hyperion Books.
• — (2011). Winter : five windows on the season. Berkeley, CA: House of Anansi Press.
• — (2011). The table comes first : family, France, and the meaning of food. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 9780307593450.
• — (2017). At the strangers' gate : arrivals in New York. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
• — (2019). A thousand small sanities : the moral adventure of liberalism. Basic Books. ISBN 978-1541699366.
• — (2019). All alike. Thornwillow Press.
• — (2023). The real work : on the mystery of mastery. New York: Liveright.

Essays, reporting and other contributions

2005–2009

• Heiferman, Marvin, ed. (2005). City art : New York's Percent for Art Program. Essay by Eleanor Heartney; introduction by Adam Gopnik; preface by Michael R. Bloomberg; featured photography by David S. Allee. New York: Merrell. ISBN 185894290X.
• Varnedoe, Kirk (2006). Pictures of nothing : abstract art since Pollock. Preface by Adam Gopnik. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
• Gopnik, Adam (February 12, 2007). "Whitney Balliett". The Talk of the Town. Postscript. The New Yorker. 82 (49): 31.
• — (December 8, 2008). "Man of fetters : Dr. Johnson and Mrs. Thrale". The Critics. A Critic at Large. The New Yorker. 84 (40): 90–96.
• — (September 28, 2009). "Read all about it". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 85 (30): 21–22.

2010–2014

• Gopnik, Adam (March 15, 2010). "Plant TV". The Talk of the Town. Bright Ideas. The New Yorker. 86 (4): 23–24.
• — (April 5, 2010). "No Rules! Is Le Fooding, the French Culinary Movement, More Than a Feeling?". The New Yorker. 86 (7): 36–41.
• — (May 24, 2010). "What Did Jesus Do? Reading and Unreading the Gospels". A Critic at Large. The New Yorker. 86 (14): 72–77.
• Zweig, Stefan (2011). Departures : Memoirs. Foreword by Adam Gopnik; introduction by Morris Dickstein. New York: Other Press.
• Gopnik, Adam (February 14, 2011). "The information : how the internet gets inside us". The New Yorker. 87 (1): 124–130.
• — (April 4, 2011). "Get smart". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. 87 (7): 70–74.
• Stevens, Norma & Yolanda Cuomo, eds. (2012). New York at night : photography after dark. Texts by Norma Stevens, Pete Hamill, Adam Gopnik, Vince Aletti, Patricia Marx. New York: Powerhouse Books. ISBN 9781576876169.
• Gopnik, Adam (January 16, 2012). "Enquiring minds : the Spanish Inquisition revisited". The Critics. A Critic at Large. The New Yorker. 87 (44): 70–75.
• — (January 30, 2012). "The caging of America". The New Yorker. 87 (46): 72–77.
• — (November 26, 2012). "Military secrets". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 88 (37): 19–20.
• — (January 28, 2013). "Music to your ears : the quest for 3-D recording and other mysteries of sound". Onward and Upward with the Arts. The New Yorker. 88 (45): 32–39.
• — (February 11–18, 2013). "Moon man". The Critics. A Critic at Large. The New Yorker. 89 (1): 103–109. Retrieved June 18, 2014.
• — (March 18, 2013). "Happy birthday". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 89 (5): 21–22.
• — (April 1, 2013). "Sauced". Talk of the Town. Master Class. The New Yorker. 89 (7): 23–24.
• — (April 8, 2013). "Andre, again". Goings on About Town. The Pictures. The New Yorker. 89 (8): 27.
• — (April 22, 2013). "Yellow fever : a hundred and twenty-five years of National Geographic". The Critics. A Critic at Large. The New Yorker. 89 (10): 102–108.
• — (June 10–17, 2013). "In the back cabana: the rise and rise of Florida crime fiction". The Critics. A Critic at Large. The New Yorker. 89 (17): 104–107.
• — (November 4, 2013). "Bread and women : two muses, one loaf". Personal History. The New Yorker. 89 (35): 66–70.
• — (November 4, 2013). "Closer than that : the assassination of J.F.K., fifty years later". The Critics. A Critic at Large. The New Yorker. 89 (35): 100–107.
• — (December 23–30, 2013). "Two bands". The Critics. A Critic at Large. The New Yorker. 89 (42): 121–127.
• — (January 6, 2014). "Two ships". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 89 (43): 17–18.
• — (April 21, 2014). "Go giants : a new survey of the Great American Novel". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. 90 (9): 102–104.
• — (May 12, 2014). "Team spirit". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 90 (12): 23–24.
• — (September 1, 2014). "Heaven's gaits : what we do when we walk". The Critics. A Critic at Large. The New Yorker. 90 (25): 74–77.
• — (December 22–29, 2014). "The fires of Paris : why do people still fight about the Paris Commune?". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. 90 (41): 145–149.

2015–2019

• Hughes, Robert (2015). The spectacle of skill : new and selected writings of Robert Hughes. Introduction by Adam Gopnik.
• Gopnik, Adam (January 12, 2015). "The outside game : how the sociologist Howard Becker studies the conventions of the unconventional". Paris Journal. The New Yorker. 90 (43): 26–31.
• — (February 2, 2015). "The driver's seat : what we learn when we learn to drive". Personal History. The New Yorker. 90 (46): 48–55.
• — (March 16, 2015). "In the memory ward : the Warburg is Britain's most eccentric and original library. Can it survive?". Dept. of Culture. The New Yorker. 91 (4): 34–41.
• — (May 4, 2015). "Trollope trending : why he's still the novelist of the way we live now". The Critics. A Critic at Large. The New Yorker. 91 (11): 28–32.
• — (July 27, 2015). "Sweet home Alabama : Harper Lee's Go set a watchman". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. 91 (21): 66–71.
• — (August 3, 2015). "The comparable Max : Max Beerbohm's cult of the diminutive". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. 91 (22): 74–79.
• Charb (2016). Open letter : on blasphemy, Islamophobia, and the true enemies of free expression. Foreword by Adam Gopnik. New York: Little, Brown. ISBN 9780316311335.
• Stettner, Louis (2016). Penn Station, New York. Introduction by Adam Gopnik. Thames & Hudson.
• Gopnik, Adam (February 1, 2016). "Vaucluse". Goings on About Town. Tables for Two. The New Yorker. 91 (46): 13.
• — (April 25, 2016). "Long play : the charmed lives of Paul McCartney". A Critic at Large. The New Yorker. 92 (11): 46–49.
• — (May 23, 2016). "Liberal-in-Chief". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 92 (15): 23–24.
• — (July 11, 2016). "Cool runnings : how to become President of Iceland". Letter from Reykjavik. The New Yorker. 92 (21): 44–49.
• — (January 16, 2017). "Mixed Up". A Critic at Large. The New Yorker. 92 (45): 81–85.
• — (January 30, 2017). "No cigar". The Talk of the Town. Encore Dept. The New Yorker. 92 (47): 20–21.
• — (March 20, 2017). "The illiberal imagination : are liberals on the wrong side of history?". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. 93 (5): 88–93.
• — (July 3, 2017). "A new man : Ernest Hemingway, revised and revisited". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. 93 (19): 61–66.
• — (December 4, 2017). "Wired : what Alexander Calder set in motion". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. 93 (39): 73–77.
• — (February 12–19, 2018). "After the fall : drawing the right lessons from the decline in violent crime". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. 94 (1): 92–97.
• — (March 4, 2019). "Diderot dicta : how a pornographer, polemicist, and prisoner became the Age of Reason's greatest impresario". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. 95 (2): 54–60.
• — (May 20, 2019). "Younger longer : can the infirmities of aging be postponed?". Brave New World Dept. The New Yorker. 95 (13): 36–43.
• — (December 30, 2019). "Sad buildings in Brooklyn : scenes from the life of Roz Chast". Profiles. The New Yorker. 95 (42): 32–39.

2020–2024

• Gopnik, Adam (January 6, 2020). "Good old days". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 95 (43): 13–14.
• — (June 1, 2020). "The empty couch". Coronavirus Chronicles. The New Yorker. 96 (15): 16–20.
• — (December 28, 2020). "Hot-ice-cream dreams : the marvellously mixed–up masters of early animated cartoons". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. 96 (42): 78–82.
• — (January 4–11, 2021). "Fault lines". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 96 (43): 15–16.
• — (September 6, 2021). "Cooked books : real food from fictional recipes". The Critics. Readings. April 9, 2007. The New Yorker. 97 (27): 74–76.
• — (May 23, 2022). "Power up : are today's dictators different?". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. 98 (13): 56–61.
• — (May 30, 2022). "The end of the line : it's long past time to reassess rhyme". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. 98 (14): 65–69.
• — (January 13, 2023). "Writer Adam Gopnik on His Surprise Cameo Opposite Cate Blanchett in Tár". Esquire. London.
• — (January 1–8, 2024). "Winter sun : how Camille Pissarro went from mediocrity to magnificence". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. 99 (44): 53–57.

Notes

1. Discusses General David Petraeus.
2. Recent books on Galileo.
3. Reviews Buell, Lawrence (2014). The dream of the Great American Novel. Belknap/Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674051157..
4. Online version is titled "The world's weirdest library".
5. Originally published in French in 2015 as Lettre aux escrocs de l'islamophobie qui font le jeu des racistes.
6. Title in the online table of contents is "Paul McCartney’s Magnificent Melodic Gift".
7. Online version is titled "Iceland's historic candidate".
8. Online version is titled "Montaigne on Trial".
9. Online version is titled "Daniel Barenboim's New York anniversary".
10. Online version is titled "Are liberals on the wrong side of history?".
11. Online version is titled "Hemingway, the sensualist".
12. Online version is titled "How Alexander Calder made art move".
13. Online version is titled "The great crime decline".
14. Online version is titled "How the man of reason got radicalized".
15. Online version is titled "Can we live longer but stay younger?".
16. Online version is titled "Scenes from the life of Roz Chast".
17. Online version is titled "Storytelling across the ages".
18. Online version is titled "The new theatrics of remote therapy".
19. Online version is titled "The mixed–up masters of early animated cartoons".
20. Online version is titled "What we get wrong about America’s crisis of democracy".
21. Originally published in the April 9, 2007 issue.
22. Online version is titled "What’s the point of food in fiction?".
23. Online version is titled "How to build a Twenty-first-Century tyrant".
24. Online version is titled "The rules of rhyme".
25. Online version is titled "How Camille Pissarro went from mediocrity to magnificence".

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