The New Yorker has launched the complete lineup of the 2025 New Yorker Pageant, going down October twenty fourth via twenty sixth within the journal’s dwelling metropolis and that includes appearances and performances by main voices in literature, movie, comedy, tv, politics, and medication. Luminaries together with Salman Rushdie, Percival Everett, Demi Moore, Jon Stewart, Lina Khan, Jonathan Groff, Keanu Reeves, Sarah Jessica Parker, Zadie Smith, and Padma Lakshmi will be part of New Yorker writers and editors for an invigorating vary of conversations, screenings, and extra, a part of the journal’s yearlong celebration of its hundredth anniversary. Tickets at the moment are on sale for all occasions, with unique reductions for subscribers.
Along with interviews and panels, the Pageant will host the New York première of “The New Yorker at 100,” an upcoming Netflix documentary that delves into the journal’s first century and follows employees members as they assemble the landmark hundredth Anniversary Subject. The movie débuted final week on the Telluride Movie Pageant and was directed by Marshall Curry, an Academy Award winner for the 2019 Finest Reside Motion Brief “The Neighbors’ Window.” Judd Apatow, an government producer of the New Yorker documentary, will seem alongside Curry for a dialogue after the screening.
The 2025 Pageant will even characteristic a podcast taping, roundtables on a variety of political and cultural matters, a cartooning grasp class taught by two of the journal’s beloved artists, and an onstage trivia contest pitting New Yorker writers towards editors.
Under is this system lineup, in short. Additional particulars, and the schedule for the weekend, can be found at newyorker.com/pageant.
This 12 months’s interviews embrace:
- The comic Jon Stewart in dialog with The New Yorker’s editor, David Remnick.
- The actor and producer Sarah Jessica Parker in dialog with the employees author Rachel Syme.
- The actor and author Emma Thompson in dialog with the employees author Helen Shaw.
- The author and “Jeopardy!” host Ken Jennings in dialog with the senior editor Tyler Foggatt.
- The previous chair of the Federal Commerce Fee Lina Khan in dialog with the employees author Sheelah Kolhatkar.
- The author and director Noah Baumbach in dialog with The New Yorker’s articles editor, Susan Morrison.
- The comedians Kate Berlant and Jacqueline Novak in dialog with the employees author Rachel Syme.
- The previous U.S. Surgeon Normal Vivek Murthy in dialog with the contributing author Dhruv Khullar.
- The artist Rashid Johnson in dialog with the curator Thelma Golden.
- The actor, producer, and creator Demi Moore in dialog with the employees author Jia Tolentino.
- The restaurateur Danny Meyer in dialog with the employees author Helen Rosner.
- The director, actor, and musician Christopher Visitor in dialog with the employees author Ariel Levy.
- The “Hen Store Date” host, author, and producer Amelia Dimoldenberg and the comic and actor Megan Stalter in dialog with The New Yorker’s cartoons editor, Emma Allen.
- The actor and author Keanu Reeves and the actor and filmmaker Alex Winter in dialog with the employees author Naomi Fry.
- The architect Annabelle Selldorf in dialog with the employees author Rebecca Mead.
There will even be conversations accompanied by musical performances:
- The actor Jonathan Groff talks with the employees author Michael Schulman and performs.
- The musician St. Vincent talks with the employees author Vinson Cunningham and performs.
- The musicians Lucy Dacus and Rufus Wainwright speak with the employees author Amanda Petrusich and carry out.
Discussions with authors of notice:
- The author Salman Rushdie talks with The New Yorker’s editor, David Remnick.
- The writers Ian Frazier and Jamaica Kincaid speak with The New Yorker’s articles editor, Susan Morrison.
- The writers George Saunders and Zadie Smith speak with The New Yorker’s fiction editor, Deborah Treisman.
- The author Percival Everett talks with the employees author Jelani Cobb.
- The writers Garth Greenwell and Ocean Vuong speak with The New Yorker’s deputy fiction editor, Cressida Leyshon.
- The writers Yiyun Li and Miriam Toews speak with the employees author Alexandra Schwartz.
Roundtables on a wide range of topics:
- “Critics at Massive Reside”: A particular dwell taping of The New Yorker’s tradition podcast, that includes the producer, tv host, meals skilled, and creator Padma Lakshmi in dialog with the employees writers Vinson Cunningham, Naomi Fry, and Alexandra Schwartz.
- “The Artwork of the Profile”: A roundtable on constructing belief with topics, revealing character, and capturing life on the web page, that includes the employees writers Larissa MacFarquhar, Rebecca Mead, Ian Parker, Kelefa Sanneh, and Michael Schulman, moderated by the New Yorker government editor Daniel Zalewski.
- “The New Political Area”: A dialogue on how the web has remade political life, that includes the podcaster Saagar Enjeti and the commentator and influencer Hasan Piker in dialog with the employees author Andrew Marantz.
- “Recalibrating for the Digital Age”: A roundtable on how A.I. and different digital instruments might help us lead higher lives in a technology-dominated world, that includes the contributors Charles Duhigg, Cal Newport, and Anna Wiener, moderated by the senior editor Tyler Foggatt.
- “Justice on Trial”: A roundtable on the Supreme Court docket and the American authorized system beneath the second Trump Administration, that includes the writers Jeannie Suk Gersen, Ruth Marcus, and Amy Davidson Sorkin, moderated by the New Yorker government editor Michael Luo.
And grasp courses and interactive occasions:
- “The New Yorker Trivia Showdown: Editors vs. Writers,” that includes the editors Sharan Shetty, Jessica Henderson, and Leo Carey competing towards the writers Clare Malone, Zach Helfand, and Gideon Lewis-Kraus in an onstage battle of wits, hosted by the cartoonist and author Asher Perlman.
- “The Artwork of the New Yorker Cartoon,” a behind-the-scenes grasp class on how the journal’s cartoons are conceived, edited, and printed, that includes the cartoonists Roz Chast and Liana Finck in dialog with the cartoon editor Emma Allen.
In addition to a particular screening:
- The New York première of “The New Yorker at 100,” the forthcoming Netflix documentary in regards to the journal. The screening shall be launched by the journal’s editor, David Remnick, and adopted by a dialog between the movie’s director, Marshall Curry, and government producer, Judd Apatow, hosted by the employees author Jelani Cobb.
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