PositiveThe Wall Street Journal...beautifully examines the myriad ways nature and nurture mingle and mix to make us who were are as adults ... Her own story is, at its heart, one of a girl from the country growing up and moving away, though at times the book flirts with a kind of advocacy journalism ... Yet despite Ms. Palm’s broad sympathies, we never get a sense of why Corey committed the murders ... The result is that rarest of things: a book that lays bare the lives that are lived and not lived.
Sebastian Junger
PanThe Wall Street JournalTribe is refreshingly free of neuroscience—some might consider this a shortcoming, but in truth far too many reporters trying to write about PTSD get lost in the maze of academic neuroscience ... Tribe is a sorely needed account on the problems of homecoming after war. But it is also filled with mistakes and misinformation ... PTSD is a complex condition with vexing moral and psychological aspects, but in Mr. Junger’s view it’s mostly about men being depressed because they can’t play war anymore. This odd, juvenile rendering of military life is a problem with much of Mr. Junger’s recent work. He presumes to speak for veterans, but he has never been inside the prison. This makes him, as an Iraq veteran friend of mine put it, “a war tourist.” Mr. Junger is never able to bridge this divide between himself and his subjects, and he ends up leaving his reader stranded.
