It took an audience member with a question late in a New Yorker Festival panel on “The Female Gaze” to inspire three renowned women writers of television, fiction and poetry to address the most agonizing recent example of male vs. female expression: the Brett Kavanaugh Senate hearings. Pulling no punches, Rachel…

Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney (No Stone Unturned), who took producing reins on Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes, told a panel at the New Yorker Festival Sunday that while the late founder of Fox News — whose career was derailed by sexual harassment claims in July 2016 — is gone, his…

Despite the “partisan inferno” evident during the last week with the Kavanaugh hearings, journalist Ronan Farrow said Friday that “our culture has crossed a Rubicon and is not going back” in recognizing sexual violence. “Survivors have stood up,” Farrow told an audience at the New Yorker Festival in Manhattan during a…

Morning Joe co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski envision possibly four more years of Trump in 2020 — just not Donald Trump. “Ivanka Trump Is going to run for president,” Brzezinski declared during an on-stage conversation with editor David Remnick on opening night of the New Yorker Festival. Remnick did a…

2ND UPDATE, 6:50 PM: Never one to mince words, Steve Bannon has fired back in his battle with The New Yorker. After being scheduled as a headliner of the October 5-7 event, the former White House Chief Strategist was disinvited after a slew of people including Judd Apatow, Jim Carrey and John Mulaney said they…

American Horror Story creator Ryan Murphy said he decided to recut the upcoming episode of the current season of the anthology Cult to tone down a mass shooting in the wake of the Las Vegas massacre. “I believe I have the right to air it. But I also believe in victims’ rights and I believe that now is not the week to…

In a New Yorker Festival conversation after a screening of his film LBJ, director Rob Reiner talked a bit about Lyndon Johnson, but also hit on on an array of other issues, from President Trump to the Russia investigation to the legacy of All in the Family. During the audience Q&A, Reiner was asked how his “community&#8221…

In a New Yorker Festival conversation with the magazine’s editor, David Remnick, Jerry Seinfeld covered a wide range of topics in a 90-minute session that was equal parts stand-up, deconstruction of stand-up, and reflections on his singular path to the top of the comedy heap. Given a fond hometown welcome at the…

Four of the most pedigreed reporters on the politics beat managed to find some rays of hope in the current moment of White House media coverage during a vigorous and wide-ranging panel discussion at the New Yorker Festival. For starters, “Thank God we have his tweets,” exclaimed Carl Bernstein. “It’s like a road map…

The New Yorker‘s iconic covers are getting the cinematic treatment thanks to a new partnership between Qualcomm and the Condé Nast magazine. Three short films, all on the subject of smartphones and wireless connectivity in culture and society, will debut today as the New Yorker Festival gets under way. The shorts will…

Donald Trump certainly wasn’t the only topic of conversation when David Letterman spoke Friday evening at the New Yorker Festival, the magazine’s annual arts series of public talks. In a 90-minute talk with New Yorker articles editor Susan Morrison, the retired talk show host discussed everyone and everything from Jay…

Talk show pioneer David Letterman, in a wide-ranging 90-minute conversation onstage at the New Yorker Festival tonight, said his old guest and sparring partner Donald Trump is not only a racist, but a “badly damaged human being.” “God bless Trumpy,” Letterman joked when asked by New Yorker articles editor Susan…