Nonfiction: How a Band of Conspirators Saved Timbuktu’s Treasured Manuscripts From Al Qaeda’s Torch

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In “The Storied City,” Charlie English tells a tale of smuggling literary treasures out of Timbuktu to save them from fundamentalist firebrands.

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