Due to an editing error, the June 30 "Books" piece neglected to mention that a longer version of the essay appears as the introduction to a reissue of Names on the Land by New York Review Books Classics.

In the June 27 "Moneybox," Daniel Gross inadvertently referred to Sen. Claire McCaskill as a he.

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