His talent for pharmaceutical chemistry made him rich. His bold taste in paintings created the foundation for America’s most ...

Barnes amassed one of the world’s greatest private collections of modern European artwork—more Cézannes (69) and Renoirs (an ...

Blake Gopnik's book foregrounds the democratic yet complicated ethos underpinning Barnes's involvement in Impressionim and ...

Other writers voted in are the author and New Yorker staff writer Adam Gopnik, novelist Chang-rae Lee, author-translator Daniel Mendelsohn and the author-playwright Darryl Pinckney. Visual artists ...

When Lillian Ross profiled the celebrated novelist, the world saw ridicule and ruin. But letters between the reporter and her subject reveal something far more complicated. The Canadian Prime ...

When, in the nineteen-nineties, people decided that we were living in a new Gilded Age, the meaning was plain. The term, borrowed from the 1873 Mark Twain novel of the same name—a mediocre book ...

Ideas54:00Writer Adam Gopnik on the Evolution of Antisemitism Into Anti-urbanism New Yorker writer and former CBC Massey Lecturer, Adam Gopnik argues that there's a connection between contemporary ...