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

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

To foster a love of reading among kids in North Carolina, Caitlin Gooch started a program through which children can read books to horses.

The author of With Teeth writes about the pleasure of riffing off a good joke.

Resources and ideas for volunteering, donating, reading, writing, and taking action to support the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) community.

An excerpt from The Essential June Jordan, edited by Jan Heller Levi and Christoph Keller and published in May by Copper Canyon Press.