MixedThe Atlantic\"His writing is most powerful when he traces the threads of tragically entwined lives. Whereas some in the media reduced Neely to a trope—the mentally ill homeless man—Man in the Mirror invests his life with complication and nuance ... Here and there, the author stumbles when inserting liberal punctuation points ... Unfortunately, when Giridharadas moves away from the man who died in the confrontation and the questions that arise from the incident, his analysis grows less subtle ... It is a virtue of this book that Giridharadas, even while seeming to harbor sympathies for the prosecutors, applies an empathy for New Yorkers who try to thread their way through the divides created by this case.\
