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Book Review: ‘What Came West,’ by Josh Weil

Josh Weil’s new novel follows an autistic trapper on an odyssey during the California gold rush.

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NYT Books and Literature

Book Review: ‘What Came West,’ by Josh Weil

NYT Books and Literature

Book Review: ‘Stolen Revolution,’ by Yeganeh Torbati and Bozorgmehr Sharafedin

In a quietly devastating new book, two journalists chart the protest movements fighting for change inside the country.

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NYT Books and Literature

Book Review: ‘Stolen Revolution,’ by Yeganeh Torbati and Bozorgmehr Sharafedin

NYT Books and Literature

Book Review: ‘Land,’ by Maggie O’Farrell

Set in the decades after the Great Hunger, “Land” is a rich portrait of family life amid Ireland’s long struggle against British rule.

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NYT Books and Literature

Book Review: ‘Land,’ by Maggie O’Farrell

NYT Books and Literature

Book Review: ‘The Fire Agent,’ by David Baerwald

“The Fire Agent,” by David Baerwald, is a historical novel that spans two continents and world wars.

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NYT Books and Literature

Book Review: ‘The Fire Agent,’ by David Baerwald

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Book Surfaces 120 Years After a San Francisco Library Lost Almost Everything

A book of poetry that survived the catastrophic 1906 earthquake and fire has been returned to the Mechanics’ Institute.

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NYT Books and Literature

Book Surfaces 120 Years After a San Francisco Library Lost Almost Everything

NYT Books and Literature

Test Your Memory of These Books That Changed the World

Try this short quiz on written works that were persuasive enough to influence American life and law.

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NYT Books and Literature

Test Your Memory of These Books That Changed the World