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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THE HOLIDAY GIFT COLUMN, A TAD EARLY TO ALLOW FOR… MAIL ORDER? SEARCHING? I DUNNO…WEAR A MASK IF YOU'RE OUT, PLEASE, TAKE CARE OF EACH OTHER.
THE GOLFER'S CAROL by Robert Bailey (Putnam). …
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George Ernsberger - Columnist
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11/20/20
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BLAND FANATICS: LIBERALS, RACE, AND EMPIRE by Pankaj Mishra (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). A collection of essays by one of those “public intellectuals” the column admires; a new one, here. For …
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George Ernsberger - Columnist
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11/13/20
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THE DIRTY SOUTH by John Connolly (Emily Bestler/Atria). I've said enough, I trust, about this modern classic thriller/supernatural horror series—but this new one takes us back in time to Charlie …
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George Ernsberger - Columnist
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11/3/20
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UNFORGETTING by Roberto Lovato (HarperCollins). Roberto Lovato is an American journalist-historian, of Salvadoran descent. He's a serious man and a terrific writer, with emotions permitted to enter …
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George Ernsberger - Columnist
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10/30/20
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UNFORGETTING by Roberto Lovato (HarperCollins). Roberto Lovato is an American journalist-historian, of Salvadoran descent. He's a serious man and a terrific writer, with emotions permitted to enter …
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George Ernsberger - Columnist
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10/29/20
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She Come by It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs by Sarah Smarsh (Scribner). Not quite a biography, though much of her life is to be found in it and Dolly comes vividly to life …
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George Ernsberger - Columnist
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10/23/20
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SHE COME BY IT NATURAL: DOLLY PARTON AND THE WOMEN WHO LIVED HER SONGS by Sarah Smarsh (Scribner). Not quite a biography, though much of her life is to be found in it and Dolly comes vividly to life …
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George Ernsberger - Columnist
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10/23/20
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She Come by It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs by Sarah Smarsh (Scribner). Not quite a biography, though much of her life is to be found in it and Dolly comes vividly to life …
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George Ernsberger - Columnist
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10/23/20
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