Lara Ehrlich, the host of the podcast Writer Mother Monster, debunks the superwoman myth and considers how to balance writing and motherhood.

The critic on how she began writing reviews, how she and the Times staff pick books to cover, and how social media affects her work. 

Copy editors are adapting to increasing cultural awareness of racial injustice and new approaches to representing identity on the page. How can their work can help or hinder social change?

The literary agent answers questions about submitting story collections, getting an agent’s attention, and querying two agents at the same agency.

Three new anthologies including Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry and There’s a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters From a Crisis.

The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books, including Second Place by Rachel Cusk and The Renunciations by Donika Kelly. 

The PERIPLUS collective aims to democratize writing and publishing by matching emerging BIPOC writers with established authors and publishing professionals for yearlong mentorships.

The fiction writer and essayist on five journals that published their work and helped shape their debut novel, The Atmospherians.