Adam Gopnik is one of our most esteemed and well-liked man of letters. Having come to prominence as a writer for *The New Yorker* since 1986 and first and foremost an observer of American life, he ...

Gopnik's (Paris to the Moon , for adults) first offering for young readers is ambitious, complex and overly long. Oliver Parker, 11, an American boy in Paris, is vaguely unhappy. His father, a ...