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  1. How a Gen X Graphic Novelist Reinvented the Romance Comic

To fully understand Charles Burns’s remarkable graphic novel, “Final Cut,” you have to look closely at the way in which it was rendered.
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CreditCharles Burns/Pantheon 2. ### Cher Can, and Does, Turn Back Time
In the first volume of her memoir (which she hasn’t read), she explores her difficult childhood, her fraught marriage to Sonny Bono and how she found her voice.
By Elisabeth Egan
Cher met Sonny Bono at a coffee shop when she was 16 and he was 27. It wasn’t easy for her to relive parts of their marriage, she said.
Cher met Sonny Bono at a coffee shop when she was 16 and he was 27. It wasn’t easy for her to relive parts of their marriage, she said.
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Murderous Emperors, Plagues, Killer Lobsters: New Speculative Fiction

Recent books by Minsoo Kang, Margaret Killjoy and James S.A. Corey.
By Amal El-Mohtar


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Haruki Murakami’s New Novel Doesn’t Feel All That New

“The City and Its Uncertain Walls” features all the author’s signature elements — and his singular voice — in a story he has told before.
By Junot Díaz


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  3. Alice in Moominland
    Tove Jansson’s illustrations for a rare 1966 edition of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” are melancholy, complex and occasionally scary.
    By Sadie Stein

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  1. Becoming Cher Didn’t Come Easy
    The first volume of her frank autobiography is a testament to resilience, chronicling a grim childhood and the brazen path to stardom, with and without Sonny.
    By Alexandra Jacobs
    Cher, at 20, in 1966, the year after she and Sonny Bono released their hit song “I Got You Babe.”
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  2. Roger Penrose at Oxford University in 1982.
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  4. The band R.E.M. in 1984, from left: Bill Berry, Michael Stipe, Mike Mills and Peter Buck.
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  5. Edwin Frank, the editorial director of New York Review Books, worked for more than a decade on “Stranger Than Fiction.”
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