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How Bookbinders Helped the Nazis Track Holocaust Victims

Conservation experts helped the Nazi regime inspect church and civil archives to track down people they sought to persecute, a researcher concluded.

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How Bookbinders Helped the Nazis Track Holocaust Victims

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Book Review: ‘Red Dawn Over China,’ by Frank Dikötter

In “Red Dawn Over China,” the historian Frank Dikötter shows that Communism’s rise in China was an unlikely, violent event with a lot of outside help.

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Book Review: ‘Red Dawn Over China,’ by Frank Dikötter

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Book Review: ‘More Than Enough,’ by Anna Quindlen

“More Than Enough” traces the struggles of a New York City private-school teacher, often through rose-tinted glasses.

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NYT Books and Literature

Book Review: ‘More Than Enough,’ by Anna Quindlen

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Book Review: ‘Young Man in a Hurry,’ by Gavin Newsom

The new book by the California governor and undeclared presidential hopeful depicts a man shaped as much by hardship and struggle as privilege.

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Book Review: ‘Young Man in a Hurry,’ by Gavin Newsom

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A Wake for The Washington Post’s Book World

Literary and cultural denizens of the nation’s capital gathered on Saturday to eulogize The Post’s scuppered Book World supplement.

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A Wake for The Washington Post’s Book World

NYT Books and Literature

Book Review: ‘White River Crossing,’ by Ian McGuire

Ian McGuire’s new novel, “White River Crossing,” tracks a party of 18th-century fortune seekers through the northern Canadian wilds.

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Book Review: ‘White River Crossing,’ by Ian McGuire