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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

When he felt that a hail of profanity and slurs didn’t suffice, Albert C. Barnes signed letters to perceived foes with his dog’s name, Fidèle. That tic and the enmity behind it became famous ...

Gopnik: I guess I was most surprised by just how important [Albert] Barnes turns out to be in the history of formalist criticism and thought—that is, thought that privileges the look of a ...

But are those blank canvases still art? For more on the intersection of art and money, Marketplace’s David Brancaccio turned to art critic Blake Gopnik. The following is an edited transcript of ...

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 ...