“The Critic’s Notebook,” by the Editors

“The Critic’s Notebook,” by the Editors

Nonfiction: Exit Wounds: A Story of Love, Loss, and Occasional Wars, by Peter Godwin (Summit Books): Exit Wounds, the elegiac new memoir by the essayist Peter Godwin, bills itself as a “story of love, loss, and occasional wars.” Set in New York and England, but with Godwin’s native Zimbabwe never far from mind, the book considers the loss of a parent, the murder of a sister, the end of a marriage, and the longing for a lost country. Along the wa…