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The New Yorker Festival will once again be a largely virtual affair this year, though a number of in-person events will also be held outdoors, at Brooklyn’s Skyline Drive-In.

The 22nd annual edition of the festival will take place October 4 to 10.

Amy Schumer, Stanley Tucci, Aimee Mann and Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl are among the confirmed participants, with more to be announced over the coming days. There will also be a preview screening of Stephen Karam’s The Humans, a film adaptation of his Tony Award-winning play, as well as an event focused on HBO limited series Scenes from a Marriage.

The festival has attained a notable profile on the fall cultural calendar over the past two decades, offering the Condé Nast-owned magazine new revenue opportunities. Prior to the pandemic, dozens of festival events would typically unfold simultaneously at multiple indoor venues across the city, among them Town Hall,...

Exclusive: Journalist Tina Brown has never had trouble attracting A-listers to her projects, whether for cover stories in Vanity Fair and Newsweek magazines, top journalists to the publications she has edited or, more recently, women at the forefront of global issuers affecting them for her annual confabs. The Women In The World conference, taking place next month at New York’s Lincoln Center, is a passion project for Brown, founded under the umbrella of her latest reinvention of self as Tina Brown Live Media. Its seventh iteration will again include change-makers from the worlds of Hollywood, business and politics, including regulars Meryl Streep and Diane von Furstenberg, as well as activists from around the world.

I’ve learned that this year’s participants in the event, set to take place April 6-8, also will include Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, the Pakistani filmmaker whose A Girl In The River: The Price Of Forgiveness...