• by Ray Schultz , September 6, 2022

The New Yorker Festival will return to New York City as a fully in-person event after two years of taking place in virtual and hybrid forms. 

The event will run from Friday, October 7 to Sunday, October 9.  

There will be several special features, including a live taping of The Political Scene, The New Yorker’s podcast on Washington news, with Representative Jamie Raskin and the New Yorker staff writers Susan B. Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos. 

In addition,  the Festival will include the New York première of the film “The Banshees of Inisherin,” followed followed a conversation between the writer and director Martin McDonagh and The New Yorker’s Patrick Radden Keefe. 

This year’s Festival is presented by Google. In addition, Google will screen an episode from “Hacking Google,” its cybersecurity series on Google’s élite security teams.

Some Festival events will stream live on Twitter and be available for on-demand replay for two weeks following the Festival weekend, via @NewYorker on Twitter. 

The Festival will also include a number of interviews, including:

• Singer Bono in conversation with Editor David Remnick. 
• Actor-writer Molly Shannon and actor-writer-producer Vanessa Bayer talking with The New Yorker’s Susan Morrison. 
• Comedian and filmmaker Jerrod Carmichael in conversation with The New Yorker’s Andrew Marantz. 

In other New Yorker-related news, the magazine announced that Jay Caspian Kang is returning as a staff writer.  Kang. who an editor at the magazine during the early days of its Web site.  will write a wide-ranging column and longer essays and features, 

Most recently, Kang wrote a twice-weekly newsletter for the New York Times opinion section on topics ranging from politics to culture to tech. In addition, Kang contributed to the Times Magazine.

Kang is also the author of  “The Loneliest Americans,” exploring Asian-American identity, and the novel “The Dead Do Not Improve.”