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PETER MANSEAU ON THE SECRET HISTORY OF AMERICAN WITCHCRAFT

The Price Is Righteous

FELIX SALMON ON WHY MONEY IS NOT THE MEASURE OF VIRTUE

Welles Lettres

A. S. HAMRAH ON THREE NEW BOOKS ABOUT ORSON WELLES

CHRISTOPHER LYON on fall’s outstanding art books

MELANIE REHAK on Ruth Reichl’s delectable tweets

CHOIRE SICHA on how St. Marks Place became a mausoleum

KAITLIN PHILLIPS on Hollywood ingenue Eve Babitz

HEATHER HAVRILESKY on Mary Karr’s memoir pointers

LORNA SCOTT FOX: Margaret Randall’s Haydée Santamaría, Cuban Revolutionary: She Led by Transgression

ALBERT MOBILIO: Tales of the Brothers Grimm: Drawings by Natalie Frank

CARL WILSON: John Seabrook’s The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory

LINDSAY ZOLADZ: Kristin Hersh’s Don’t Suck, Don’t Die: Giving Up Vic Chesnutt

GEORGE SCIALABBA: Marilynne Robinson’s The Givenness of Things

CHRIS RASMUSSEN: Megan Prelinger’s Inside the Machine: Art and Invention in the Electronic Age

ARTHUR GOLDHAMMER: Luc Sante’s The Other Paris

SARAH NICOLE PRICKETT: The Passion According to Carol Rama

DAVID O’NEILL: Sarah Charlesworth: Doubleworld

KAREN OLSSON: Edward H. Miller’s Nut Country: Right-Wing Dallas and the Birth of the Southern Strategy

CHRIS BRAY: Annie Jacobsen’s The Pentagon’s Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America’s Top-Secret Military Research Agency

KAELEN WILSON-GOLDIE: Riad Sattouf’s The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978–1984

NAMARA SMITH: Jacqueline Rose’s Women in Dark Times

GENE SEYMOUR: Margo Jefferson’s Negroland and Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me

ERIC BANKS: Amitav Ghosh’s Flood of Fire

CLANCY MARTIN: Simon Critchley’s Memory Theater

LAURA MARSH: Paul Kingsnorth’s The Wake

LIDIJA HAAS: Dodie Bellamy’s When the Sick Rule the World and Eileen Myles’s Chelsea Girls and I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems 1975–2014

JAMES CAMP: Garth Risk Hallberg’s City on Fire

CHRISTOPHER SORRENTINO: Jonathan Franzen’s Purity

DEB OLIN UNFERTH: Joy Williams’s The Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories