Mind Reels, the Lark’s special daytime documentary film series, returns with four captivating films, inviting you to participate in thoughtful discussion following the screening.

THE NEW YORKER AT 100 (2026)

Dir: Marshall Curry

The New Yorker’s centennial reveals behind-the-scenes access to editors, writers, and archives of this culturally vital magazine, one of print’s last survivors.

GUEST SPEAKERS:

ISAAC CHOTINER
Isaac Chotiner is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where he is the principal contributor to Q. & A., a series of interviews with public figures in politics, media, books, business, technology, and more. Before joining The New Yorker, Chotiner was a staff writer at Slate and the host of the podcast “I Have to Ask.” He has written for The New Yorker, the Times, The Atlantic, the Times Literary Supplement, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal. After graduating from the University of California, Davis, Chotiner worked at The Washington Monthly before joining The New Republic, in 2006, as a reporter-researcher. He went on to run the magazine’s online books section and later became a senior editor.

MARK ULRICKSEN
Artist and Illustrator Mark Ulriksen is a Bay Area native (San Carlos) and has lived in SF’s Cole Valley for 40 years. He began working with the New Yorker in 1993 and has since contributed 75 covers and over 150 illustrations within the magazine. He’s worked for most of the countries leading periodicals over a varied career, including a dozen years as a graphic designer as well as art director of the KQED magazine San Francisco Focus. He was SFJAZZ’s illustrator for over ten years, has done murals for the Chicago Bears, covered The Masters for Golf Digest, published an illustrated book on his love of dogs (Dogs Rule Nonchalantly). He’s won awards in most every illustration competition for over three decades and has been a recipient of three gold and three silver medals from the Society of Illustrators. He enjoys speaking to art students and aficionados and is currently working on a graphic memoir entitled “My Four Fathers”.

ANNA WEINER
Anna Wiener is a contributing writer to The New Yorker, covering the Bay Area, technology, and the cultural influence of Silicon Valley. Her first book, “Uncanny Valley,” a memoir of her time in the tech industry, was published in 2020. Excerpts of “Uncanny Valley” were published by The New Yorker as “Girl, Disrupted.” The book expands on a lightly fictionalized piece by the same title, published by n+1 in 2016.She lives in San Francisco.