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Fault Lines by Emily Itami (Custom House).
Intelligent, sophisticated first novel, that’s going to be hard to describe accurately without convincing you it’s a commonplace …
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George Ernsberger
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9/17/21
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Revelator by Daryl Gregory (Knopf).
Fine big historical horror novel, set in the Smoky Mountains, in Tennessee, over a couple of timelines in the 1930s and ’40s. The Revelator we get to know …
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George Ernsberger
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9/13/21
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Bloodless: A Pendergast Novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (Grand Central).
Just out, and already at the top of bestseller lists. This great series, eerie and sometimes funny, has been a …
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George Ernsberger
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9/3/21
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A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next by Tom Standage (Bloomsbury).
The title’s a bit of a trick, I suppose. But the subtitle owns up: this is (yet …
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George Ernsberger
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8/27/21
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Learning in Public by Courtney E. Martin (Little, Brown).
This book will have you cringing when I’m only half through describing it—even as I’m telling you, well, but, you should …
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George Ernsberger
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8/20/21
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The Quiet Zone by Stephen Kurczy (Dey Street).
In a town adjacent to a supersized electronic telescope monitoring the universe, cell phones and certain other common electronic screens to focus on …
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George Ernsberger
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8/13/21
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When We Were Strangers by Alex Richards (Bloomsbury).
A YA novel, actually, though you mightn’t notice unless you’re a really attentive reader. Central characters are young and in the …
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George Ernsberger
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8/6/21
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The Other Passenger by Louise Candlish (Atria).
It’s not exactly psychological suspense, though there’s psychology involved, of course; in fact, most of the suspense consists of: what …
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George Ernsberger
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7/30/21
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The King of Infinite Space by Lyndsay Faye (Putnam). Big contemporary…hm-m, murder mystery, for one thing; but then, theater novel, gay drama—and still more, by this column …
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George Ernsberger
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7/23/21
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The Wonder Test by Michelle Richmond (Atlantic Monthly Press).
First-rate espionage novel—but then some; then quite a lot, in fact. The intrepid FBI operative, a displaced New Yorker in …
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George Ernsberger
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7/16/21
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Together We Will Go by J. Michael Straczynski (Scout Press).
Another smart, nervy novel by a person who also writes for television and film and comics…would be one way to introduce this …
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George Ernsberger
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7/9/21
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Across the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings by Earl Swift (Custom House).
Wonderfully enjoyable, exhilarating read (and lots of photos). Everybody old …
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George Ernsberger
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7/2/21
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