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YELLOW WIFE by Sadeqa Johnson (Simon & Schuster). The voice of this stirring historical novel is that of a surreptitiously educated enslaved woman, in Virginia in the 1850s. It isn't didactic—this …
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George Ernsberger - Columnist
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1/29/21
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NINE DAYS: THE RACE TO SAVE MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.'S LIFE AND WIN THE 1960 ELECTION by Stephen Kendrick and Paul Kendrick (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). This book has a thriller title because it's as …
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George Ernsberger - Columnist
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1/22/21
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OUTLAWED by Anna North (Bloomsbury). This is being called a “speculative western,” apparently because it's set in a 19th-century American West that never existed. Well, neither did the one I grew …
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George Ernsberger - Columnist
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1/15/21
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KEEP SHARP by Sanjay Gupta (Simon & Schuster). The most practical-minded book on this general subject that I've seen. Dr. Gupta is a neurosurgeon, and that's an OK credential—he does hold the …
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George Ernsberger - Columnist
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1/8/21
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THE SYSTEM by Ryan Gattis (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). A crime novel, is a precisely accurate characterization of this stunning new work, though that really doesn't due it…justice, I was about to …
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George Ernsberger - Columnist
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1/1/21
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BAG MAN: THE WILD CRIMES, AUDACIOUS COVERUP, AND SPECTACULAR DOWNFALL OF A BRAZEN CROOK IN THE WHITE HOUSE by Rachel Maddow and Michael Yarvitz (Crown). Spiro Agnew really was just brass, through and …
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George Ernsberger - Columnist
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12/25/20
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PERESTROIKA IN PARIS by Jane Smiley (Knopf). Smiley has been a column favorite for about as long as there's been a column, for the sort of reasons any writer might be—she's a smart and thoughtful …
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George Ernsberger - Columnist
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12/18/20
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PERESTROIKA IN PARIS by Jane Smiley (Knopf). Smiley has been a column favorite for about as long as there's been a column, for the sort of reasons any writer might be—she's a smart and thoughtful …
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George Ernsberger - Columnist
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12/18/20
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PERESTROIKA IN PARIS by Jane Smiley (Knopf). Smiley has been a column favorite for about as long as there's been a column, for the sort of reasons any writer might be—she's a smart and thoughtful …
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George Ernsberger - Columnist
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12/17/20
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PHILANTHROPHY by Paul Vallely (Bloomsbury). Very big (and accordingly pricey, so an especially attractive gift idea, just now) but readable and enlightening history and philosophy of wealth and …
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George Ernsberger - Columnist
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12/11/20
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PHILANTHROPHY by Paul Vallely (Bloomsbury). Very big (and accordingly pricey, so an especially attractive gift idea, just now) but readable and enlightening history and philosophy of wealth and …
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George Ernsberger
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12/10/20
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COBBLE HILL by Cecily von Ziegesar (Atria). The title prompts an alert: This is a novel, not a sociological study of the latest smartest place in Brooklyn; it's full of real people to get to know …
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George Ernsberger - Columnist
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12/4/20
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