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New Yorker staff writer Malcolm Gladwell previews his next book, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, scheduled to be published in January by Little, Brown. Mr. Gladwell’s previou…

At the 2007 New Yorker Festival the “Iraq Revisited Panel” talked about the situation in Iraq. Topics included the cycles of change in the country and the current military, political, govern…

A panel discussion on “Investigative Journalism: Getting the Story” was moderated by Dorothy Wickenden. Participants talked about journalism, various investigations they had undertaken, usin…

A discussion was held on the relationship between literature and politics with authors Edwidge Danticat, Dave Eggers, Cynthia Ozick, and Orhan Pamuk. The authors explained an author’s role w…

Television news anchors talked about coverage of presidential elections, the role of network news broadcasts in increasingly competitive news markets, and ethical concerns in the field of jo…

Panelists discussed how to sell a candidate and showed some ads from the current and past presidential campaigns. The panel included: Mark McKinnon, Director of Media and Advertising for the…

At the New York Festival, panelists talked about neoconservatism and the war in Iraq. The panel was moderated by New Yorker staff-writer George Packer. Ken Adelman’s books included The D…

The New Yorker Festival hosted a panel discussion on media bias. Journalists compared print and electronic media organizations and their challenges to remain objective. They talked about the…

Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz was interviewed on stage by Jeffery Goldberg about the war with Iraq and defense policy. Among the issues he addressed were the reasons for engaging in war, the pa…

The panelists, led by Mr. Holbrooke as moderator, discussed the possibility of war with Iraq, what kind of war it will be, and what the world will be like after the war. Mr. Gelb is the auth…

Author E.L. Doctorow spoke about his book Lamentation: 9/11, published by Millwood Publishers. The book is a collection of photographs showing New Yorkers grieving after the September 11 att…

Author Bernard Lewis talked about Americans' misunderstanding of the culture and way of life in the Middle East. He also discussed the difficulty in overpowering Saddam Hussein now, as oppos…

Mr. Lewis talked about his book, What Went Wrong: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response, published by Oxford University Press. He also spoke about the long history of the Muslim people,…

Moderated by Mr. Buford, authors discussed the difficulties that arise when writing a memoir, as well as the fine line between the memoir and the novel. They answered audience members' quest…