In our September issue: Erin Somers on the rise and fall of cultivated meat; Barrett Swanson on the Ugly People Festival in Italy, Kyle Berlin on the French bestseller whose controversy divided the country, Finn Brunton on prediction markets and crypto-anarchism, Thomas Frank on the Obama Center, Kasia Boddy on William Kennedy’s Albany Trilogy, a pseudonymous memoir of a government official in Beijing, and five stories from Diane Williams.
