The New Yorker Festival

This annual festival gathers the biggest and most exciting names in fiction, journalism, poetry, graphic novels, screenwriting, directing and all-around culture-making for a weekend of panel discussions, readings, film screenings, musical performances, walking tours and food tastings. Past celebrity participants have included the likes of Spike Lee, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Jhumpa Lahiri; among this year’s notables are Zadie Smith, Lina Kahn and Bill-and-Ted duo Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves, who are appearing on Broadway this fall in Waiting for Godot. Visit the website for more on this year’s event, which marks the 100th anniversary of The New Yorker magazine.