Throughout history parents have always done their best to raise their children to become healthy, well-adjusted adults. Yet, as UC Berkeley developmental psychologist Alison Gopnik points out in her ...

Six-month-old babies are the happiest people on the planet. I look forward to seeing them every day in my pediatric practice - all gummy smiles and drool, merrily exploring everything within reach.

In his book, Gopnik puts his signature genteel bohemian liberalism on full display. He rhapsodizes about how John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor’s marriage was a metaphor for the power of “compromise.

While the election was ugly in its vociferousness, Gopnik says it was beautiful in the passions it evoked. On the Republican side, Gopnik said the election was passionate. On the President's side, he ...

When I heard last year that Adam Gopnik was writing a “stirring defense of liberalism” titled A Thousand Small Sanities, I had many questions. How would he turn liberalism into a story about his kids ...

To many, Adam Gopnik has mastered the art of writing. He’s been a writer, essayist and critic for The New Yorker since 1986, and plays himself critiquing Cate Blanchett’s imperious composer Lydia Tár ...

Gopnik's (Paris to the Moon , for adults) first offering for young readers is ambitious, complex and overly long. Oliver Parker, 11, an American boy in Paris, is vaguely unhappy. His father, a ...

A low murmur ripples through the audience. And there you are, standing alone, center stage. Hundreds sit before you—silent, waiting. But there’s a problem. You don’t know your lines. You don’t know ...

Earlier this week, I attended a reading at The Strand for Adam Gopnik's new book, The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food. The book is an intellectual dive into the history of ...

Adam Gopnik has, by many accounts, including his own, a lovely life. A longtime staff writer for the New Yorker and bestselling author, Gopnik lives in Manhattan with his wife, Martha, a film-maker, ...

A one-man show, a box of old stories, and the strange intimacy of talking to a room full of strangers. The Canadian federal election, on Monday, which culminated in Mark Carney’s retention of the ...