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Table Comes First (Book)

Adam Adam (Author), Adam Gopnik (Author)

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The Table Comes First (Book)

Adam Gopnik (Author)

"From the author of Paris to the Moon--one man's quest for the meaning of food in a time obsessed with what to eat. Never before have we cared so much about food. It preoccupies our popular culture, our fantasies, even our moralizing--"You still eat meat?" How could the [...]

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The Table Comes First (Book)

Adam Gopnik (Author)

Examines the meaning and relevance of food in the modern world, tracing the evolution of present-day practices from French traditions.

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Winter : Five Windows on the Season (Book)

Adam Gopnik (Author)

Collects the thoughts and perspectives of artists, poets, composers, writers, explorers, and scientists on the season of winter, from reflections on snow and God to the future of northern culture.

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Angels and Ages (Book)

Adam Gopnik (Author)

A dual bicentennial biography of two men, born the same day an ocean apart, reveals how the writings of these two seminal figures, Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin, altered our views of the world--one through a war to preserve the Union, the other through science.

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The Steps Across the Water (Book)

Adam Gopnik (Author), Adam/ McCall Gopnik (Author), Bruce McCall (Illustration)

Young Rose discovers magical glass steps in New York's Central Park that lead to the fantastic city of U Nork, whose residents have been awaiting the arrival of the only person who can save them.

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Da Parigi alla luna (Book)

Adam Gopnik (Author)

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Una casa a New York (Book)

Adam Gopnik (Author)

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Paris to the Moon: A Family in France (Book)

Adam Gopnik (Author)

Adam Gopnik's memoir of five years as an American family man in Paris

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The Best American Essays 2008 (Book)

Adam (EDT)/ Atwan Gopnik (Author), Adam Gopnik (Editor)

Edited by The New Yorker's Adam Gopnik, a new collection of the finest nonfiction essays published over the past year incorporates the work of distinguished masters of the essay genre, including Albert Goldbarth, Anthony Lane, Louis Menand, and Ander Monson, among others. [...]

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Americans in Paris (Book)

Adam Gopnik (Author), Adam Gopnik (Editor)

Collects the works of Americans writing about Paris, France, including works by Abigail Adams, Thomas Paine, P.T. Barnum, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Langston Hughes, Cole Porter, Gertrude Stein, James Thurber, and Jack Kerouac.

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Paris to the Moon (Audio book)

Adam Gopnik (Author), Adam Gopnik (Reader / Narrator)

The comic-romantic adventures of an American family in Paris as told by the author of "The New Yorkers" popular "Paris Journal" column.

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The King in the Window (Book)

Adam Gopnik (Author)

Eleven-year-old Oliver, an American boy residing in Paris, discovers, much to his astonishment, that phantoms live within the windowpanes and have selected Oliver to lead a war against the "soul-stealers" that inhabit mirrors.

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City Art: New York's Percent for Art Program (Book)

Eleanor Heartney (Author), Adam Gopnik (Illustration)

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Through the Children's Gate (Book)

Adam Gopnik (Author)

Describes the author's 2000 move from Paris back to New York with his family in a series of essays that profile the teachers, therapists, coaches, friends, adversaries, and others who make up their extended urban family.

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