In its 23rd edition, the New Yorker Festival is “an eclectic mix of conversations, performances, and experiences, featuring some of the most talented and influential figures of our time.”

The festival will feature creative minds such as the Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and the British Novelist Hari Kunzru. They will be in conversation with Parul Sehgal discussing writing and race on October 8th, 2022 at the SVA Theatre.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a world-renowned writer whose work has been translated into numerous languages. Her award-winning publications include the novels “Purple Hibiscus” (winner of a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize), “Half of a Yellow Sun” (winner of the Orange Prize), and “Americanah” (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award), as well as the nonfiction books “We Should All Be Feminists” and, most recently, “Notes on Grief.” She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, among other honors.

Hari Kunzru is the author of six novels, including “Gods Without Men,” “White Tears,” and “Red Pill.” He has been awarded fellowships by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library, and the American Academy in Berlin. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Honorary Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford. His essays have appeared in The New York Review of Books, and he is a writer of the “Easy Chair” column for Harper’s Magazine.

Parul Sehgal is a staff writer at The New Yorker. She was previously a book critic at the Times, where she also worked as a senior editor and columnist. She is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle’s Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing and a New York Press Club Award for Critical Arts Review. She teaches in the creative-writing graduate program at New York University.

The tickets are currently available here , and the full lineups here.