Adam Gopnik

Feel Me

Adam Gopnik on haptics, and the discoveries of scientists like Dustin Tyler, David Ginty, Xinzhong Dong, and Katherine J. Kuchenbecker.

Does It Help to Know History?

One lesson of history is that even doing the right thing rarely works out.

Word Magic

How much really gets lost in translation?

The Caging of America

Adam Gopnik examines why the United States incarcerates so many people—at six million, more than were in Stalin’s gulags.

The Information

Adam Gopnik reviews some of the books that celebrate or censure the Internet, and considers what omnipresent information is doing to our minds.

The Real Work

Adam Gopnik writes about the hard work that it takes to master the sleights of hand, illusions, and card tricks necessary to be a successful magician.

The People on the Bus

“The People on the Bus” by Adam Gopnik was published in the print edition of the May 5, 2003, issue of The New Yorker.