The Magazine
The Style Issue
September 9, 2019
Reporting
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.
Personal History
The Book of Prince
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?
Portfolio
Alex Prager’s L.A. Dreaming
The photographer’s new series has an uneasy relationship with the past.
The Critics
Pop Music
Brockhampton Grows Up
The Gen Z boy band’s clear and concise new album, “Ginger,” is a testament to the forces of professionalization.
Books
What Statistics Can and Can’t Tell Us About Ourselves
In the era of Big Data, we’ve come to believe that, with enough information, human behavior is predictable. But number crunching can lead us perilously wrong.
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.
On Television
The Niche Celebrity Satire of “BH90210”
A sweet meta-reboot of the hit nineties teen soap opera is just smart enough to feel clever, just silly enough to feel relaxing, a guilty pleasure by design.
The Current Cinema
The Hour of Reckoning Descends in “Mr. Klein”
Restored to its clammy glory, Joseph Losey’s 1976 film, starring Alain Delon, shows the director as a connoisseur of dread as he dissects the anti-Semitism of Occupied France.
The Talk of the Town
Amy Davidson Sorkin on the 2020 race for the Senate; ahoy there, Greta Thunberg; Mark Ronson’s feelings; Airbnb but for swimming; rosy outlook at the drugstore.
West Sider
Mark Ronson’s Midlife Crisis
After a divorce and the release of his album “Late Night Feelings,” the d.j. and producer of hits for Miley Cyrus, Bruno Mars, and Lady Gaga is moving back to his childhood neighborhood.
The Sharing Economy
At Last, an Airbnb for Pools
Want to swim in a random stranger’s back-yard pool, but without getting arrested, shot at, or developing a skin disease? There’s now an app for that.
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.
Dept. of Teen Spirit
Greta Thunberg’s Slow Boat to New York
A crowd of young eco-warriors and international media greeted the teen-age climate activist as she sailed into town on a carbon-neutral boat to attend a summit at the U.N.
Shouts & Murmurs
Shouts & Murmurs
Class Notes
Cartoons
1/7
“By the time I realized my mistake, it was already too late.”
Cartoon by Edward Steed
Fiction
Fiction
The Stone
“The woman had not named the stone. She had thought that naming the stone would be an insult to its ineffable gravity.”
Poems
Poems
Position Paper
Goings On About Town
Art
Wangechi Mutu’s Female Figures Grace the Met’s Façade
Art will adorn niches on the museum’s exterior for the first time courtesy of the Kenyan-born artist, whose quartet of seven-foot-high bronzes are reminiscent of caryatids.
Tables for Two
The Unapologetic Decadence of Hutong
In the former Le Cirque space, playing chopsticks hockey for the last morsel of David Yeo’s Szechuanese classics is inevitable.
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