Written by Edward Dolnick, the Edgar Award-winning author of The Rescue Artist, The Forger’s Spell tells the true story of the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer and the no-name painter Han van Meergeren whose forged paintings managed to pass as Vermeer originals, duping buyers out of millions of dollars.

Distinguished critic at the New Yorker since 1998, Peter Schjeldahl has been described as America’s most influential writer on art, tackling his subjects with wit, perspicacity, and an unerring eye. Covering subjects drawn from a broad canvas of the history of art, from ancient Greece to John Currin, the essays collected in Let’s See seek with precision the essence of the artist or works they examine, while never losing sight of the bigger picture.