Adam Gopnik

How do our brains know what to do with music?  Is the ability to distinguish music part of human DNA?  Best selling author, neuroscientist and musician Daniel J. Levitin returns to our studio with Adam Gopnik of The New Yorker to talk about the biology of music. 

With days upon days of holiday cooking ahead of us, it's the time of year when you're most likely to consult a cookbook ... or give one to your mom. Julia Moskin, New York Times food ...

In his new double biography Angels and Ages, New Yorker staff writer Adam Gopnik looks at the lives and legacies of Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin. Both men were born 200 years ago.

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Two hundred years ago, on February 12, 1809, a pair of cosmic twins entered the universe. Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin in Kentucky. Across the Atlantic, Charles Darwin was ...

Adam Gopnik, New Yorker staff writer, and Ta-Nehisi Coates, contributing editor to The Atlantic and author of The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood, talk about fatherhood in the age of Obama.

Adam Gopnik, New Yorker staff writer, and Ta-Nehisi Coates, contributing editor to The Atlantic and author of The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood, talk about fatherhood in the age of Obama.

Kurt Andersen talks about re-creations with Adam Gopnik, author of Paris to the Moon. Gopnik has been writing for The New Yorker since 1986. He recently returned to New York after five years as the magazine’s Paris correspondent.

Kurt introduces special guest New Yorker critic and author Adam Gopnik.

A French multinational controls of much of America's pop culture legacy. Are Americans interested in a Fijian Civil War or in "Survivor"?. Ed Asner on his late co-star Nancy Marchand.

In your face! The history of an aggressively confrontational press.

MOMA director Richard Oldenburg talks about the value of art works with curator and art historian Kirk Varnedoe, writer Adam Gopnik, and museum director Linda Shearer.