What book reviewers are saying this week
TELL ME HOW THIS ENDS: General David Petraeus and the Search for a Way Out of Iraq
By Linda Robinson / PublicAffairs
鈥淟inda Robinson鈥檚 鈥楾ell Me How This Ends鈥� is the first book about [the] new Iraq. It鈥檚 a first-rate piece of work, probing and conscientious, though reading a good-news book about one of America鈥檚 all-time bad-news stories can take some getting used to.鈥�
鈥� JAMES TRAUB,
THE MEN IN MY LIFE
By Vivian Gornick / MIT Press
鈥淰ivian Gornick makes you want to read. In her new collection of essays, 鈥楾he Men in My Life,鈥� authors [Philip Roth, V.S. Naipaul, Allen Ginsberg and others], all great literary men, come alive on the page like great characters, bleeding, raging and most of all trying (but almost always failing) to love.鈥�
鈥� JUDITH LEWIS,
HOLDING PATTERN
By Jeffrey Renard Allen / Graywolf
鈥� 鈥楬olding Pattern鈥� [is] a short-story collection of rare and scouring power.... Imaginative, empathic, brave, and beautifully told, these are astonishing and transcendent stories. 鈥�
鈥� DONNA SEAMAN,
