This Week’s Issue: The Fight for the Latino Vote in Florida

Plus: a Profile of Constance Wu, the controversies of Crazy Horse, and Janet Malcolm on Susan Sontag. View in browser | Update your preferences The Political Scene The Fight for the Latino Vote in Florida Immigration, taxes, and health care matter, but a foreign-policy issue has taken center stage. By Jonathan Blitzer Profiles Constance Wu’s Hollywood Destiny Coming late to celebrity, the star has felt the burden of representing all Asian-Americans. By Jiayang Fan A Reporter at Large Jonathan Ledgard Believes Imagination Could Save the World His strategies for a more equitable, sustainable future range from practical and humanitarian to fanciful and abstract. By Ben Taub Letter from South Dakota Who Speaks for Crazy Horse? The world’s largest monument is decades in the making and more than a little controversial. By Brooke Jarvis Books Susan Sontag and the Unholy Practice of Biography A new book is as unillusioned about the writer as she was about herself. By Janet Malcolm A Critic at Large Roy DeCarava’s Poetics of Blackness The artist explored the ways in which race can define a person’s style and essence, and made clear how poorly the color black had been used in American photography before he came along. By Hilton Als Comment The Democrats’ Trust Exercise Last week’s debate was largely about how radical, or just how ambitious, the Party and its candidates are prepared to be. By Amy Davidson Sorkin PAID POST Why do our interactions with strangers so often go wrong? A classic Gladwellian intellectual adventure through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news, Talking to Strangers argues that something is very wrong with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of the people we don’t know. Humor from The New Yorker Shouts & Murmurs Going to the Restaurant Tonight I will eat a burned-up bird and drink liquefied old grapes. I’m so excited that I put skin-colored paint on my face and pasty red pigment on my lips. By Jenny Slate Cartoons From The Issue Cartoons from the Issue Drawings and drollery from this week’s magazine. 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.