Nonfiction: September's best-written recent release

Read the opening of our pick below ^ Plus Parts 46 and 47 of The Demon Inside David Lynch: TV Drama’s Worst Fiasco

In today’s issue:

— ‘That this Baudelaire of the Dublin Liberties – an alcoholic, opium addict, dandy and writer of strange, exotic, esoteric verses – should burst his way through a drink and drug binge during a Liberties lock-in with our own poète maudit, Shane MacGowan, seemed almost too good to be true’: our pick from the recent releases in nonfiction.

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—’You get the sense that casting yourself as divinities in a TV drama with ego-deflation as a central theme must be like committing murders—the first time is by far the hardest’: Parts 46 and 47 of The…