Nonfiction: the best-written recent release

Read the opening pages from our pick below ^ Plus Part 31 of The Demon Inside David Lynch

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—’My job is clear: I must protect the transmission, smuggle it out of the theater, to examine it later in my room, see if it still glows’: the opening pages of Maggie Nelson’s Like Love, the best-written recent release in nonfiction.

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