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JULIA TOPPIN recommends Patti Smith’s eloquent memoir that wrestles with the beauty and sorrow of a lifetime
MARJORIE MAYO welcomes an account of family life after Oscar Wilde, a cathartic exercise, written by his grandson
KEN COCKBURN guides us through a survey of Chekov’s early short fiction, and the groundwork it laid for his later masterpieces
ANDY HEDGECOCK revels in a hugely enjoyable but deadly serious examination of the 1930s, that is an indictment of our own era
The bard distills our hellish times into fiery words
JEFFREY WEEKS’S memoir of gay liberation as it was experienced from 1945 to the present day is an exhilarating, informative — and troubling — account.
Weeks, a sociologist and historian, comes from the first generation of working-class students to benefit from the 1944 Education Act and to get to university from grammar school. His book describes the political and intellectual journey of a gay man from Rhondda in Wales to the middle-class academic milieu of London.
His two-part account — the first half joyful, the second somewhat horrific — is divided by the shocking suicide of his father in 1976.
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