| David Remnick
Editor, The New Yorker .png) In 1998, as The New Yorker was hurtling toward its seventy-fifth anniversary, we decided to lift the magazine off the page for a few days a year and embody it somehow in three dimensions. We created the New Yorker Festival, a weekend-long festival of writing, performance, art, and the exchange of ideas. Since its first appearance, in 2000, the Festival has provided some unforgettable moments, with appearances by the likes of Stephen Sondheim, Toni Morrison, Patti Smith, John Lewis, Jon Stewart, and, of course, our own writers, artists, and editors. This year, from Friday, October 25th, through Sunday, October 27th, the twenty-fifth annual New Yorker Festival will bring that same spirit of celebration, with interviews, performances, screenings, master classes, improv, live podcast recordings, and more, onto stages across the city. This year’s lineup includes discussions with a stellar group of writers—Jennifer Egan, Jonathan Franzen, Rivka Galchen, Sheila Heti, Miranda July, Gary Shteyngart, Ayad Akhtar, Mohsin Hamid, and more. We’ll also feature conversations with a collection of lauded actors of the screen and stage, including Jean Smart, Alan Cumming, Julianne Moore, Audra McDonald, and John Early. And there will be live performances by the National and by Sara Bareilles. As we enter the final weeks of a momentous and exceedingly consequential election season, some of our Festival conversations will tackle the major political challenges of the moment. The New Yorker writers Eliza Griswold, Antonia Hitchens, Benjamin Wallace-Wells, and Emily Witt will share stories from their reporting on the campaign trail. The Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz will discuss the future of American capitalism. And I’ll be on stage with two distinct political voices, Liz Cheney and Rachel Maddow, to discuss what might happen in November and beyond. New Yorker subscribers have access to discounted tickets for all of the Festival’s events. A subscription is the most impactful way you can support our work, in all its forms, and we hope you’ll consider upgrading your status today to enjoy this benefit among so many others. In a few months, The New Yorker will celebrate its centenary. The Festival is just one of the many innovations that we have made in the past hundred years, part of a frequent reimagining of what a magazine can be, and how an institution rooted in tradition can continue to share the humor, beauty, and hard truths of the world with our community of readers, listeners, and viewers. I look forward to the Festival weekend every year, and I hope that you’ll be joining us. | 
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