[2] He is the author of nine books, including Paris to the Moon, Through the Children's Gate, The King in the Window, and A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism.

[5] During a storytelling session for The Moth in 2014, Gopnik explained that his paternal grandfather and maternal grandmother fell in love with each other, left their respective spouses and married.

[8] In 1986, he began his long association with The New Yorker with a piece that would show his future range, a consideration of connections among baseball, childhood, and Renaissance art.

He has written for four New Yorker editors: William Shawn, Robert Gottlieb, Tina Brown, and David Remnick.

Gopnik has contributed fiction, humor, book reviews, profiles, and internationally reported pieces to the magazine.

[10][11] In addition to Paris to the Moon, Random House published the author's reflections on life in New York, and particularly the comedy of parenting, Through the Children's Gate, in 2006.

In 2010, Hyperion Books published his children's fantasy novel The Steps Across the Water which chronicles the adventures of a young girl, Rose, in the mystical city of U Nork.

[17] He wrote the libretto for Nico Muhly's oratorio Sentences, which premiered in London at the Barbican Centre in June 2015.

[24] In 2016, Gopnik began a free lecture series at the Lincoln Center's David Rubenstein Atrium, titled The History of the World in 100 Performances.

[25] Throughout the pandemic years, Adam appeared as a regular guest on the Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice Power Hour with BRCSJ Chief Activist Robt Martin Seda-Schreiber which was broadcast live every nite for over two years & he is now a regular visitor to this LGBTQIA+ Safe-Space & community activist hub at their physical HQ in Princeton, NJ.