But what is a Gopnik in Anora? What does the word mean? Here's what we know. Gopnik is a derogatory Russian slang word that roughly translates to thug. Yura Borisov was asked specifically about ...

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 ...

Also: Adam Gopnik on where to eat near the Frick; Sondheim and Chekhov, Marisa Tomei and Lucas Hedges onstage; the kinetic Afro-pop of Youssou N’Dour; and more. After a few years away ...

“Yes, we should go there,” Gopnik wrote. The worst sometimes happens. If people of good will fail to act, and soon, it can happen here” (emphasis added). The “it” was fascism. As Gopnik ...

Yet Adam Gopnik is surely right to argue, in the opening pages of The Real Work, his new book on what he calls “mastery,” that the effort needed to achieve such proficiency (to completely ...

By Lola Seaton What is Adam Gopnik a master of? Though trained as an art historian, since being hired as a staff writer for the New Yorker in the late 1980s, Gopnik has produced pieces on a prodigious ...

THE REAL WORK: On The Mystery of Mastery. By Adam Gopnik. Liveright. 256 pages. $30. Adam Gopnik assures us that “the real work,” as he defines it, is within reach of everyone. But it takes ...

Blake Gopnik’s entertaining biography of Barnes, “The Maverick’s Museum,” does nothing, despite strenuous efforts to find the good in Barnes’s quarrelsome character, to disabuse us ...