*We asked the beloved novelist, whose book *Transcription* is out in April, to single out one artwork that impacted him. *

I thought of Rose Salane’s* 60 Detected Rings* (1991–2021) when asked to inaugurate a column called Revelations because the word is so close to “revaluations,” and what the art I love reveals to me is how our measures of value might be challenged and transformed. Salane bought the rings in *60 Detected Rings *at an estate sale; they’d been collected by a woman named Jill Benedict, who, using a metal detector, had gleaned them from the beaches of Atlantic City over a period of 30 years. Salane had the rings evaluated by a lab that recorded the electromagnetic frequency of the metal (when detected) and the ring’s “melt value”; she also had psychics interpret—reveal—what they could about the rings’ previous owners. Salane then mounted the rings in cases and captioned them with these scientific and economic and psychometric classifications.…