Bono has always had a way with words. The U2 frontman and lyricist is capable of true eloquence, as on the aching ambivalence of “One” — not at all a love song, or at least a very complicated one — or ...

U2's Bono is seen as a successor to a very small fraternity of world-conquering rock stars – the likes of Springsteen, Jagger and Bowie. He's less recognized as a successor to a literary tradition: ...

U2’s first new record in nearly a decade, “Days of Ash,” is a call to action fueled by anger and rooted in hope.

“Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story,” which hits stores Nov. 1, is exactly what you would expect from Bono’s memoir. The U2 showman veers from intimate to over the top, from insightful to overwrought.

What else is a man of taste to do, other than look at Bono and U2 with a snivelling haughtiness? Sure, the guitars used to be good, and in the late 1980s the group might have found their way. But now ...

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