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Steve Martin met his good friend Adam Gopnik three decades ago, and in that time, Gopnik has always marveled at Martin’s ability to flourish in a wide variety of artforms: magic, comedy, art collecting, writing, and music. In So Many Steves: Afternoons with Steve Martin, New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik creates a new type of profile: a year’s worth of conversations with Martin where Gopnik pulls back the curtain on his friend’s illustrious career.

Writer and essayist Adam Gopnik's introduction to Sleeping Through the Dream.

Writer and essayist Adam Gopnik's introduction to My Monets.

The New York Times best-selling author offers a stirring defence of liberalism against the dogmatisms of our time. Not since the early 20th century has liberalism, and liberals, been under such relentless attack, from both right and left. The crisis of democracy in our era has produced a crisis of faith in liberal institutions and, even worse, in liberal thought. A Thousand Small Sanities is a manifesto rooted in the lives of people who invented and extended the liberal tradition.

Writer and essayist Adam Gopnik's introduction to Thinking About Thinking, Part 2.

Writer and essayist Adam Gopnik's introduction to Survivor.

Writer and essayist Adam Gopnik's introduction to Dear Birth Mother.

Writer and essayist Adam Gopnik's introduction to Upright Grand.

Writer and essayist Adam Gopnik's introduction to Songs of the Humpback Whale.

Writer and essayist Adam Gopnik's introduction to Life at McMurdo.

Writer and essayist Adam Gopnik's introduction to Korean Sharing House.

Writer and essayist Adam Gopnik's introduction to Citizenship Diary.

Writer and essayist Adam Gopnik's introduction to Thinking About Thinking, Part 1.

Writer and essayist Adam Gopnik's introduction to 24 Hours on the Edge of Ground Zero.

Writer and essayist Adam Gopnik's introduction to Mother-in-Law.

Writer and essayist Adam Gopnik's introduction to Sand Hogs.

Writer and essayist Adam Gopnik's introduction to Soweto.

Bill Buford spends a wild night in the park; Jonathan Safran Foer envisions it as a tiny, transplanted piece of a mythical Sixth Borough; and Marie Winn answers definitively Holden Caulfield's question of where the ducks go when the park's ponds freeze over. There are bird sightings and fish sightings; Jackie Kennedy and James Brown sightings; and pieces by Colson Whitehead, Paul Auster, and Francine Prose. This vibrant collection presents Central Park in all its many-faceted glory, a 51-block swath of special magic.

Renowned French philosopher, journalist, and filmmaker Bernard-Henri Levy speaks with The New Yorker's Adam Gopnik about the often-fraught relationship between France and its Jewish population, and between America and France because of the situation between France and its Jews.

Roz Chast brings her brilliant, hilarious artwork to No Fair! No Fair! and Other Jolly Poems of Childhood by Calvin Trillin and The African Svelte: Ingenious Misspellings That Make Surprising Sense by Daniel Menaker, as well as her own memoir Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?. Join us for a conversation moderated by Adam Gopnik ( The New Yorker) between the artist and authors, plus readings by Jane Curtin and Reg Rogers ( The Knick).