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It's the sunny beaches and the Golden Gate that make it onto the postcards. But look at a topographic map of California and you'll see that one of its defining features is the Central Valley, a 450-mile-long basin of agricultural heartland, source of almonds and fruit bound for distant states,…

FICTION: An ambitious novel charts the relationship between an ordinary man's travails and decades of geopolitical upheaval.

I should not worry so much, because reading slumps come and go. But every time one comes, I worry that it won't ever go. What if I've permanently lost my ability to concentrate? This is certainly possible, in this age of ever-distracting social media.

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of Lessons by Ian McEwan and The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman.