Literary fiction: September's best-written recent release ^ Plus the final parts of The Demon Inside David Lynch

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Orpheus looks back and condemns his love Eurydice to hell. Painting by Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein.

In today’s issue:

—’You might think that if you want to put together a fiasco the best approach is uninterrupted muck, but that’s because you aren’t a demon and are, no offence, hardly an expert on making fiascos’: the final two parts of The Demon Inside David Lynch: TV Drama’s Worst Fiasco. The rest of the series begins here, and a free copy of the fully illustrated .epub is available on request at auraist@substack.com.

— ‘not in red, in white today, samite and mystic, across the dark and open ground they ran, on pitch of soil, of grass and paint, to set about their art’: our first pick from the recent releases in literary fiction. Our nonfiction picks are here, here, and here.

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