Join us! See the full lineup and purchase tickets.The New Yorker Festival, the magazine’s annual celebration of culture and ideas, will return October 23rd to 25th, in New York City. This year’s event features...

“Girls have luck,” Joey Monaco, a devoted bettor, said. Girls—women, he clarified, particularly those who aren’t gamblers—have luck. We were sitting at Silks, a bar on the ground floor of the Aqueduct Racetrack, in...