Adam Gopnik

Listening to the N.F.L.: A plots and B plots in the best podcasts for the playoffs

February 10, 2024

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Adam Gopnik for The New Yorker. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Credit: Photograph by Cindy Ord / SiriusXM / Getty *…

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Cate Blanchett Plays Herself

February 22, 2023

Here is an excerpt from  Adam Gopnik‘s interview of Cate Blancett for The New Yorker. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Photograph Credit: Pari Dukovic for The New Yorker * *…

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Orwell’s “1984” and Trump’s America

January 28, 2017

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Adam Gopnik for The New Yorker in which he explains why Donald Trump’s lies, and his urge to tell them, are pure Big Brother crude, however oafish their articulation. To read…

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Updike: A book review by Bob Morris

September 8, 2014

Updike Adam Begley HarperCollins (2014) “A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.” Sigmund Freud John Hoyer Updike (1932-2009) is widely considered among the most accomplished U.S. writers during…

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