“I’m not a writer, I’m a receiver for something I don’t always understand.” —James Cagney, author of Martian: The Saint of Loneliness

The new editor of Poetry shares his aspirations for shaping the 110-year-old magazine to reflect an expansive literary landscape.

A special “unburnable” edition of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale was crafted to raise awareness about recent efforts to ban books from schools and libraries.

The author of one of last year’s most challenged books confronts a campaign of threats, cyberattacks, and doxing in the post-truth era.

“It takes a lot of intentional work to write ethical stories.”  —Hafizah Augustus Geter, author of The Black Period: On Personhood, Race, and Origin

The editor of The Best Short Stories 2022: The O. Henry Prize Winners sees translation as a way of putting a language back in movement by allowing the currents of different languages to mix and blend.

Annie Hwang of Ayesha Pande Literary talks about community building, professional burnout, the questions writers should ask when querying agents, and the demanding work of advocating for diversity in publishing.

The author of Selected Books of the Beloved explores enumeration as a source of poetic possibility.

A look at three new anthologies, including New Weathers: Poetics From the Naropa Archive, edited by Anne Waldman and Emma Gomis.