Reads tagged with “Adam Gopnik”
Favorite Books of 2019
From the hidden universe beneath our feet to delight as a countercultural force of courage and resistance, by way of Patti Smith, Toni Morrison, and the Greek myths.
A Nonbeliever’s Case for the Bible: How a Secular Reading of Scripture Enlarges Our Experience of Beauty, Morality, and Transcendence
From Blake to Bach, why the ancient text long stripped of fact remains essential to our grasp of poetic truth.
Adam Gopnik on Darwin’s Brilliant Strategy for Preempting Criticism and the True Mark of Genius
“In the back-and-forth of a self-made contest, both sides have a shot.”
The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs
“Dogs are not about something else. Dogs are about dogs.”
The Table Comes First: Adam Gopnik on the Meaning of Food
A cultural history of our modern culinary obsession.
How John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor’s Pioneering Intimate Partnership of Equals Shaped the Building Blocks of Social Equality and Liberty for the Modern World
“Compromise is not a sign of the collapse of one’s moral conscience. It is a sign of its strength, for there is nothing more necessary to a moral conscience than the recognition that other people have one, too. A compromise is a knot tied tight between competing decencies.”
A Love Letter to Winter: Adam Gopnik’s Ardent Case for the Cold Season’s Splendor and Significance
“If we didn’t remember winter in spring, it wouldn’t be as lovely… half of the keyboard of life would be missing. We would be playing life with no flats or sharps, on a piano with no black keys.”
Cultural Icons on Criticism
Twain, Sontag, Bradbury, Hitchens, Didion, and more.
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