Our annual Literary Agents Issue features profiles of eleven agents on what they want to read and how to query them; an in-depth look at the growing trend of agents representing poets; an interview with former poet laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Natasha Trethewey; our twentieth annual roundup of the summer’s best debut fiction; special reports on the effects of COVID-19 on the business of books, indie bookstores, literary festivals, and authors’ creativity in quarantine; writing prompts; and more.