This Week’s Issue: An Epic Play About Gay Life

Plus: the young writer who was going to help Prince write his autobiography, Sterling Ruby’s clothing line, and more. View in browser | Update your preferences Profiles How Matthew Lopez Transformed “Howards End” Into an Epic Play About Gay Life “The Inheritance,” opening soon on Broadway, reimagines E. M. Forster’s novel as a lovingly wry portrait of New York’s gay community. By Rebecca Mead Personal History The Book of Prince Prince had grand plans for his autobiography, but only a few months to live. By Dan Piepenbring Annals of Fashion Sterling Ruby’s Mixed Media The art star, a longtime collaborator of Raf Simons, wants to take his designs to a wider audience. But will his new clothing line devalue his other work? By Christina Binkley Portfolio Alex Prager’s L.A. Dreaming The photographer’s new series has an uneasy relationship with the past. By Alex Prager Comment The Urgency of the 2020 Senate Race Even if Trump loses, the Democrats will need to take the Senate in order to turn their ambitious plans into legislative reality. If he wins, control of that chamber will be crucial. By Amy Davidson Sorkin Books Student Debt Is Transforming the American Family The cost of a degree—and the “open future” that supposedly comes with it—has become one of the defining forces of middle-class life. By Hua Hsu PAID POST Salman Rushdie writes a dazzling Don Quixote for the modern age. From the Booker Prize-winning author The New Yorker called "a glittering novelist" and "a master of perpetual storytelling" comes Quichotte: a tour de force that is a much an homage to an immortal work of literature as it is to the quest for love and family. Humor from The New Yorker Shouts & Murmurs Class Notes Kimberly Connelly ’93 brings news that her latest beauty product, a cellulite cream, attracted the attention of the F.D.A., “and not in a pleasant way.” By Calvin Trillin Cartoons From The Issue Cartoons from the Issue Drawings and drollery from this week’s issue. Sign up for more newsletters from The New Yorker. Visit The New Yorker shop. Question about your subscription? Contact Customer Care. New Yorker digital subscribers get unlimited access to everything on newyorker.com. Log in to your account here. We’d love your feedback on this newsletter. Please send your thoughts and suggestions to TNYinbox@newyorker.com. This e-mail was sent to you by The New Yorker. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, NewYorker@newsletters.newyorker.com, to your address book. View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe Copyright © Condé Nast 2019. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.