The New York Times – Travel:
I emigrated from the Soviet Union decades ago, and recently toured Thomas Jefferson’s home with my American-born history-buff son.
Category: Books and Literature
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Literary Travel Combines Travel and a Love of Books
The New York Times – Travel:
Resort book clubs, tour companies, hotel libraries and a growing number of literary festivals are offering readers new ways to indulge their interests.
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The ‘Paddington’ Musical Will Come to Broadway Next Spring
The New York Times – Film:
The show, which revisits the story of a marmalade-loving bear, plans to open next April at the Hirschfeld Theater in New York.
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Madeline Cash Isn’t Playing Around. Or Is She?
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
Her debut novel taps into a microgeneration’s blurring of performance and reality.
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Songwriter David Baerwald Shares an Unspeakable Family Secret in ‘The Fire Agent’
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
In “The Fire Agent,” the musician David Baerwald bases his debut novel on the shadowy life of his German-Jewish grandfather: an aristocrat, a soldier, a Buddhist and a spy.
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Joana Avillez Revisits Her Waterfront Childhood
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
Joana Avillez took six years to illustrate a new edition of Joseph Mitchell’s “The Bottom of the Harbor,” which captures the salty New York neighborhood of her youth.
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Finally, a Bookstore That Sells Mesh Underwear
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
The book and fashion worlds have been flirting. At Climax, they’re making out.
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David Henderson, Innovative Poet and Hendrix Biographer, Dies at 83
The New York Times – Music:
Part of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s, he went on to reclaim a leading musician of the psychedelic era as a distinctly African American artist.