Adam Gopnik

The rise of the sport as we know it was centered in Gotham, where big stadiums, heroic characters, and epic sportswriting produced a pastime that bound a city together.

The COVID-19 pandemic affected us in millions of ways. But it evades the meanings we want it to bear.

The civil-rights mastermind was sidelined by his own movement. Now he’s back in the spotlight. What can we learn from his strategies of resistance?

After the English Revolution—and an island’s experiment with republicanism—a genuine restoration was never in the cards.

For all the clouds of publicity, the dream machine is actually a craft business. Have we asked too much of it?

A virtuoso of the eighteenth-century version of viral memes and fake news, he had a sense of political theatre that helped create a radical new reality.

Born after the Civil War, he turned himself into its most powerful witness—and modernized the American novel.

Pioneering cartoonists were experimental, satiric, erotic, and artistically ambitious.

The gourmet’s real genius wasn’t in his recipes but in his packaging. He knew how to serve up the authenticity that his audiences craved.

Revisionist biographers have given us countless perspectives, from Honest Abe to Killer Lincoln. Is there a version that’s true to his time and attuned to ours?

The history of caffeine and capitalism can get surprisingly heated.