NEW YORK (AP) — At age 45, Lin-Manuel Miranda already has accomplished enough to receive a lifetime achievement honor.

The events of the last few weeks reminded me of this succinct summary of Timothy Ryback’s book, Takeover: Hitler’s Final Rise to Power fron Adam Gopnik in the New Yorker: Ryback details, week by week, ...

A young couple out for a Sunday morning stroll. They had breakfasted at the Brevoort and planned to spend the day by themselves doing things that they had wanted to do for a long time but hadn't ...

By Blake Gopnik The terrifying first capture in Africa. The deadly crossing of the Middle Passage. The brutality of slave markets and servitude. It’s almost impossible to imagine, let alone ...

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Rachel Aviv’s article about Alice Munro—and how she stayed married to her husband, Gerry Fremlin, even after finding out that he had molested her daughter—took me back to Munro’s short ...

In that sense, “The Neverending Story” is the fairy tale of fairy tales. Which is, arguably, its strength. Journalist Adam Gopnik once wrote, “Fairy stories are not rich because they are true, and ...

writer Adam Gopnik, and former U.S. poet laureate Rita Dove. Her close partnerships with prominent composers span genres and generations, with premieres and commissions coming from Jennifer Higdon ...