Nonfiction: September's best-written recent releases III

Read the opening pages of our pick below ^ Plus Part 50 of The Demon Inside David Lynch: TV Drama’s Worst Fiasco

In today’s issue:

— ‘Until the glass crashed, I had been in what neuroscientist Richard Davidson from the University of Wisconsin calls experiential fusion—the state of being so absorbed that your consciousness itself becomes fused with what you are experiencing. During experiential fusion with music, you temporarily lose awareness of yourself as an individual entity, separate from the music; you and the music have become one’: our next pick from the recent releases in nonfiction. Our previous picks are here and here, where you can also find the full list of books considered.

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