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The city is not exactly known for its state-of-the-art airports. That should change by 2030.

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Even amid the clamor of a city of millions, New Yorkers have always been able to escape into a good book.

It’s Tom Stoppard’s World and We Don’t Live in It Tom Stoppard in New York in 1974, when “Jumpers” opened on Broadway.Credit...Jack Manning/The New York Times Buy Book ▾ By David Ives By Hermione Lee In his early 20s, Tom Stoppard — rather like young Aladdin and his lamp — told his mother, “I’d like to be famous!” The lad in this case played genie to himself and made his own wish come true by pouring out, over more than five decades, a glis...