Our July 23 issue is now online, with Brenda Wineapple on the celebrations that marked the nation’s centennial, Mark O’Connell on the future according to Elon Musk, Gordon F. Sander on the fall of Viktor Orbán, Gabriel Winslow-Yost on George Saunders’s climate change novel, Omer Bartov on the Nazi’s true enemy, Susan Rubin Suleiman on André Breton’s Nadja, Jed Perl on fashion’s takeover of the Met, David Quammen on the “dark mystery” of genetic mutations, Julia Preston on El Paso, Bryce Covert on Joe Manchin, poems by Jim Johnstone and Laura Kolbe, and much more.

Brenda Wineapple
An Uncertain Triumphalism

America’s centennial in 1876 was celebrated with a grand exhibition that projected an image of national unity and inventiveness in the anxious aftermath of civil war and recession.

Mark O’Connell
Space Oddity

Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff’s Muskism examines how Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire, by selling a vision of the future that very few people would want to inhabit.

Gordon F. Sander
Hungary: The Flood

Peter Magyar’s landslide electoral victory in April made clear that after sixteen years, Hungarians were tired of Viktor Orbán.

Gabriel Winslow-Yost
Climate and Punishment

Vigil finds George Saunders returning to the theme of his first novel, grief—this time not for a person but for a planet.

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