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Gary Shteyngart, a Russian-Born Author, Tours Thomas Jefferson’s Home With His Son

I emigrated from the Soviet Union decades ago, and recently toured Thomas Jefferson’s home with my American-born history-buff son.

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Gary Shteyngart, a Russian-Born Author, Tours Thomas Jefferson’s Home With His Son

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Rereading ‘The Road’ as a Dad

“The Road,” by Cormac McCarthy, was one of the author Ryan Holiday’s picks for The New York Times’s “100 Best Books of the 21st Century.” Holiday first read the harrowing story of a father and son traveling together in a postapocalyptic world in college. On a recent episode of the “Book ...

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Rereading ‘The Road’ as a Dad

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3 Books to Read if You Loved ‘The Road’

The best-selling author Ryan Holiday joined the “Book Review” podcast to discuss “The Road,” by Cormac McCarthy. This book was one of Holiday’s picks for The New York Times’s “100 Best Books of the 21st Century,” and made it onto the list at no. 13. If you like McCarthy’s postapocalyptic ...

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3 Books to Read if You Loved ‘The Road’

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Danny Simmons, Painter and Activist From a Creative Family, Dies at 72

The older brother of the music mogul Russell Simmons and the rapper Joseph Simmons, he made his own way as an artistic and entrepreneurial force in Brooklyn.

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Danny Simmons, Painter and Activist From a Creative Family, Dies at 72

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Books Our Editors Love This Week

Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.

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Books Our Editors Love This Week