3. American Nightmares
A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge
By Josh Neufeld (August 18; Pantheon)
The lives of ordinary people swept up by Hurricane Katrina, in graphic-novel form.
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Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town
By Nick Reding (Bloomsbury)
A portrait of an Iowa hamlet overtaken by a drug that’s as ravaging as crack.
Imperial
By William T. Vollmann (July 30; Viking)
A kaleidoscopic, enormous (1,344-page) investigative exploration of the border territory of Imperial County, California.
Benedict Cumberbatch, Out of Darkness
Inspecting Donald Judd's Loft Building 
The Judy Blume File
Exit Poll: Lauryn Hill
Fashionables: Little White Dresses
Summer Rental Fantasies
Adam Platt on Lafayette
The New Israeli Cuisine
Welcome to the Real Space Age
The Stop-and-Frisk Trials of Pedro Serrano
Matt Harvey, Pitch by Phenomenal Pitch
Joe Hynes Gets His Television Show
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