On October 24, 2025, the comedian-actors Kate Berlant and Jacqueline Novak took the stage for a discussion with the New Yorker staff writer Rachel Syme, as part of the 26th annual New Yorker Festival.

SHOW STARTS AT 8:00PMIn 2016, Jacqueline made her network debut on The Late Late Show with James Corden, shot The Half Hour special for Comedy Central, and released her first book HOW TO WEEP IN ...

NEW YORK — Take away the hormones, the pheromones, the heat and the dark and the drink (or three). Turn off the flesh and turn on the analytics: Oral sex, at least in the abstract, seems like a pretty ...

“It’s very dental,” she said with a note of disdain over lunch near the Cherry Lane Theater, where her solo show “Get on Your Knees,” a cerebral stand-up meditation on the sexual act, begins ...

I saw the most devastating thing I've ever seen. Got confused and wrapped it around. No, that's not it. Wait, does mine have that? No, no, no. Oh. Yours has that, that's why I just noticed. The little ...