“Helter Skelter” is published on the occasion of the exhibition of American artists Arthur Jafa and Richard Prince at Fondazione Prada in Venice. The book contains an introduction by Miuccia Prada; two visual essays by Arthur Jafa and Richard Prince; a curatorial essay by Nancy Spector titled “The American Vernacular: Unpolished Truths”; a conversation between the two artists; three essays exploring their practices by Aria Dean (“Jokes”), Ashley James (“Monster/Mythic/Mystery”) and Amy Taubin (“Empathy and Adjacency”); and nine short essays crossing themes of contemporary American culture, from Black religiosity (Ashon Crawley) and gender identity (Jack Halberstam) to science fiction (Peter Watts), cars (Randy Kennedy), Black music (Ernest Hardy), whiteness (Martin Lund), punk culture (Greil Marcus), millenarianism (Dorian Lynskey) and the exploitation of prostitution (Beth Coleman); the plates of the works on view; the exhibition and book checklist; and Italian translations of the texts. The graphic concept is by Peter Saville, with graphic design by Graphic Thought Facility, and photographs of Venice and Ca’ Corner della Regina by Jöel Tettamanti.