Adam Gopnik

Adoration, exploitation, and the strange afterlife of being celebrated too soon.

A new sanctuary on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway assembles a deliberately whimsical variety of materials, where sculpture moves and is moved in turn.

Donald Trump, Architecture Critic

Mitchell captured New York’s oddballs and renegades with an understated lyricism that transformed fact into literature.

We celebrate the period as a golden age of cultural rebirth. But two new books argue that the Renaissance, as we imagine it, is little more than myth.

The late songwriter’s targets are mostly forgotten—so why do new generations keep discovering him?

What the queen means to Jewish tradition and to resisting tyranny and persecution—in the seventeenth century and today.

What appalled and obsessed Victor Hugo most was the seemingly “normal nature” of the French regime, even as it committed acts of unprecedented authoritarian menace and cruelty.

How Irving Thalberg helped turn M-G-M into the world’s most famous movie studio—and gave the film business a new sense of artistry and scale.

In his new memoir, the media mogul recalls a career built as much on serendipity as on strategy.