On October 26, 2025, the New Yorker staff writers Larissa MacFarquhar, Rebecca Mead, Ian Parker, Kelefa Sanneh, and Michael Schulman joined the executive editor Daniel Zalewski onstage at the 26th annual New Yorker Festival, a weekend of conversations, screenings, performances, and more. The Festival, which is the magazine’s signature event, was held in New York City and brought together leading voices in literature, film, comedy, television, politics, and medicine.

Larissa MacFarquhar has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1998. She has written about child-protective services , the battered-women’s movement , dementia , and hospice care , and her profile subjects have included Barack Obama , Noam Chomsky , and Hilary Mantel , among many others. She is the auth

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