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Who hasn’t dreamed of running away, leaving it all behind, totally reinventing yourself?

Great art is often created in the wake of terrible tragedy – think Guernica, The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll, The Vietnam Memorial.

Great art is often created in the wake of terrible tragedy – think Guernica, The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll, The Vietnam Memorial.

Remember the 1980s? Remember college? Even if you weren’t alive, or never attended university, you’ll feel like you’ve gone back in time with this week’s picks.

Coming of age can be a challenge, no matter where, or when, you do it.

Immigration is and always has been such a complex issue, you may not even realize how much it touches your everyday life.

Our Evenings, by Alan Hollinghurst, and Pony Confidential, by Chrstina Lynch

On this edition of The Weekly Reader, we'd like to turn your attention to a pair of local authors whose work reflects and illuminates the world around us: The Play’s the Thing, by James Magruder, and Behind You Is the Sea, Susan Muaddi Darraj

On this edition of The Weekly Reader, we review a pair of high-profile memoirs that reveal the complex lives of two vastly different, widely influential people: Patriot, by Alexei Navalny, and Cher: The Memoir, Part One, by Cher.

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