Adam Gopnik

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Staff Writer at The New Yorker

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Movie Club Newsletter

1 week ago | link.newyorker.com | Justin Chang |Richard Brody |Amanda Petrusich |Adam Gopnik

What our writers think about the new film, which stars Dakota Johnson and Pedro Pascal. Plus: a new documentary about video stores. View in browser | “Materialists” Is a Thoughtful Romantic Drama That Doesn’t Quite Add Up In Celine Song’s follow-up to “Past Lives,” Dakota Johnson plays a New York City matchmaker caught between a designer Mr. Right and an impoverished ex-boyfriend.
How Barry Diller Stayed on Top

1 month ago | newyorker.com | Adam Gopnik

Why do we read the memoirs of aging entertainment tycoons, long after the entertainments that made the tycoon a tycoon have largely been shelved and forgotten? The easy answer is that they offer brushes with celebrities.
When a Writer Takes to the Stage

1 month ago | newyorker.com | Adam Gopnik

Writers who contemplate going onstage tend to fall into two camps: those who know better and those who should but don’t. Of the second kind, The New Yorker has, over its hundred years, produced quite a few. Robert Benchley, one of the magazine’s founding voices (if on permanent loan from the Algonquin circle), was perhaps more famous in his day as a performer than as a writer. His sketch “The Treasurer’s Report” became a classic.
What Canadians Heard-and Americans Didn’t

1 month ago | newyorker.com | Adam Gopnik

To some degree, we always overinterpret elections. They can be decided by differences in proportion so small that, if the election had been held in a crowded barn and people had shouted out a voice vote, you would have had no idea who won, and yet even the tiniest margins become signals of historical inevitability. As with our most recent Presidential election, a small squeeze is amplified into an immense triumph.
What Canadians Heard—and Americans Didn’t | Flipboard

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Adam Gopnik

Conservative caucus will meet to select interim Opposition Leader amid concerns Liberals are trying to poach disgruntled MPsThe Conservative caucus will meet on Tuesday to mull over the party’s election defeat and select an interim Opposition Leader to replace Pierre Poilievre amid concerns that the Liberals are trying to poach some of their MPs. Front-runners for the job of Opposition Leader are former leader Andrew …
For Watchers of “The Clock,” Time Is Running Out

2 months ago | newyorker.com | Adam Gopnik

“The Clock,” the addictive film masterpiece by the Swiss artist Christian Marclay, has been showing continually at MOMA since November, and some of us have become transfixed Clockwatchers, returning week after week to witness as many hours of it as we can. Now, with the run ending on May 11th, the thought of a Clockless life is like losing a favorite mechanical watch from our wrist, or like losing track of time itself.
For Watchers of “The Clock,” Time Is Running Out

2 months ago | flipboard.com | Adam Gopnik

22 hours agoSFMOMA's 2025 Art Bash turned the museum into a sprawling cocktail party The Warriors are in the playoffs, and Jimmy Butler is injured. San Francisco named a street after Jerry Garcia. Sunset Dunes, the new park on a 2-mile stretch of the Great Highway, seems to be winning over some of its critics. …
Was the Civil War Inevitable?

2 months ago | newyorker.com | Adam Gopnik

Out of guilt or amnesia, we tend to treat wars, in retrospect, as natural disasters: terrible but somehow inevitable, beyond anyone’s control. Shaking your fist at the fools who started the First World War and condemned millions to a meaningless death seems jejune; historians teach us to say that the generals did their best under impossible conditions. Mournful fatalism is the requisite emotion, even when mad fury would be more apt.
The Frick Returns, Richer Than Ever

2 months ago | newyorker.com | Adam Gopnik

For instance, François Boucher’s eighteenth-century paintings of toddlers engaged in the work of scientists, artists, and philosophers previously formed an odd parenthetical downstairs. Now they are back where they began, as boudoir paintings (perhaps originally intended for Madame de Pompadour’s circle), reinstalled in Adelaide Frick’s sitting room. Art cycles in and out of fashion, and nothing could have been less suited to twentieth-century taste than Boucher’s chocolate-box cherubs.
The Long Shadow of the Kennedys

Mar 24, 2025 | newyorker.com | Adam Gopnik

Given the daily degradation of our democracy—not merely its practice but its symbols and forms, which matter, too—it seems merely worth a baleful look that more of the so-called Kennedy files, which the National Archives released last week, on Donald Trump’s order, turn out, so far, to contain what is technically called bupkes: nothing of consequence or revelation. Whispers about such obvious hoaxes as an alleged letter written by John F.