PositiveThe AtlanticLayered, nuanced ... Not concerned with lionizing or demolishing its principal subject. Instead, it sets out to tell the story of the artist’s up-and-down career and complicated personal life, giving equal weight to each ... Fans will likely devour many of these stories and want to live inside of them ... Fascinating ... Later stories, particularly in the second half of Reed’s life, may test the mileage of even die-hard fans. Hermes occasionally leans on hypothetical asides ... Much of Hermes’s reporting seems to have taken place after Reed’s death, though that doesn’t prove to be much of a hindrance.
