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Surrender (2022, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group) 4 stars

…[I]n Surrender, it’s Bono who picks up the pen, writing for the first time about …

Reading Bono's "Surrender" is slow going not because it's unmoving, nor uncompelling, nor indigestible. It's slow going because every chapter sends you back to your record collection, armed with history, ready to listen for new things in new ways. Songs become albums. Albums become memories. And memories become present.