| Since Friday, leading authors, actors, artists, and comedians have been gathering in Manhattan, speaking to audiences and answering their questions at The New Yorker Festival, now celebrating its twenty-fifth year. The guests include an Oscar winner, multiple Emmy recipients, and best-selling novelists, plus at least one Pulitzer Prize winner and a pair of MacArthur “geniuses.” In the final days before the election, one hot ticket has been the MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, whom the magazine’s editor, David Remnick, will interview this afternoon. In 2017, The New Yorker’s Janet Malcolm followed Maddow through a turbulent year, profiling her subject as she took in the first stages of the Trump Presidency. The performance Malcolm observed on prime time was not always what she witnessed in person. “ ‘The Rachel Maddow Show’ is a piece of sleight of hand presented as a cable news show,” Malcolm wrote, analyzing the technical tricks and personality traits that gave the program so much liberal appeal. Maddow, who professed herself “really excited” about her work as Trump’s Inauguration loomed, reflects on her own evolving politics, the mini-scandals her show had ignited (“I really have no regrets at all,” she says about one of them), and what she describes as her “reckless” approach to the show’s opening monologues. Engrossing on its own, the Profile serves as a helpful refresher if you’d like to watch Maddow’s Festival appearance—which, like a selection of other Festival events, will be available to stream live and on demand in the days ahead. | 
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