THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features…

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.

Centennial: The Great Fair of 1876 and the Invention of America’s Future by Fergus M. Bordewich

Hungary: The Flood

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

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.

Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed by Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff

Song of Our Cells

Though a mystery to Darwin in his lifetime, the constant mutation of our genes is what allows for life’s magnificent diversity.

Beyond Inheritance: Our Ever-Mutating Cells and a New Understanding of Health by Roxanne Khamsi