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This week in the New York Times Book Review, Benjamin Percy reviews “The Yellow Birds,†a novel by Kevin Powers that follows a soldier through his duty in Iraq and his struggles to adjust once back home. Mr. Percy writes:
At the age of 17, Kevin Powers enlisted in the Army and eventually served as a machine-gunner in Iraq, where the sky is “vast and catacombed with clouds,†where soldiers stay awake on fear and amphetamines and Tabasco sauce daubed into their eyes, where rifles bristle from rooftops and bullets sound like “small rips in the air.†Now he has channeled his experience into “The Yellow Birds,†a first novel as compact and powerful as a footlocker full of ammo.
On this week's podcast, Mr. Powers discusses “The Yellow Birdsâ€; Matt Taibbi talks about Seth Rosenfeld's “Subversivesâ€; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Parul Sehgal is the host.
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