TimesTalks Festival

The New York Times celebrates twenty years of its popular conversation and performance series with its first ever TimesTalks Festival. In addition to chats with cultural stars like Grace Jones, Katie Couric, Denzel Washington and Margaret Atwood, the fest features discussions on subjects like the opioid crisis and women in the senate, live editions of NYT columns, a pre-release screening of Season 2 of The Handmaid’s Tale, a Smorgasburg food hall and a Strand pop-up bookstore.