editors

Toni Morrison was an editor for 12 years, even as she wrote her own masterpieces. I spoke to her authors about being edited by an icon.

I was once paid six figures to write an article—now what?

Judith Jones edited culinary greats such as Julia Child and Edna Lewis—and identified the pleasure at the core of traditional “women’s work.”

How one-third of “The Watergate Three” got written out of journalism history.

Pauline Hopkins, Booker T. Washington, and the Fight for The Colored American Magazine.

When editors believed their magazines could change lives.

Jonathan Goldman explores the beginnings of the Algonquin Round Table and how Parker's determination to speak her mind gave her pride of place within it.

What I saw as the editor of “The Art of the Deal,” the book that made the future President millions of dollars and turned him into a national figure.

The history of the L.A. Times.

A new book examines the aggressive masculinity that the editors of the Partisan Review brought to their art and literary criticism.

High-minded and scandal-prone, a foe of marriage who dreamed of domesticity, Fuller radiated a charisma that helped ignite the fight for women’s rights.

The Amazon founder was once the newspaper’s savior; now journalists are fleeing as the paper that brought down Nixon struggles under Trump’s second term.

After its purchase by a tech entrepreneur, the publication is now a shadow of itself.

A deeply skeptical, deeply American mind and its trail of sharp, clean sentences.

Her ghostwritten autobiography diminishes her, and I found out why.

When the Kamala Harris endorsement was spiked, the publisher cited tradition. A closer reading of history tells a different story.

Anvil's popular vision for a multiracial socialism in the heart of the US could hardly be more urgent today.

Harold Ross founded The New Yorker as a comic weekly. A hundred years later, we’re doubling down on our commitment to the much richer publication it became.

You’ve got one unsung editor to thank for many of your all-time favorite recipes.

When did endorsements become pro forma, anyway? And what do they even do?

In the midst of the Depression, Conroy helped encourage a new generation of working-class writers.

Autopsies of a changing publishing industry; frustrations with readers' tastes; and sympathies for poets and authors drawn to commercially hopeless genres.

Romano’s book is a vital, comprehensive piece of media scholarship about one of the most influential outlets of the last century. It’s also fun as hell to read.

A front-row seat to a slow-moving catastrophe. How tech both helps and hurts our world.

Dan Sinykin’s history of corporate fiction.

A new history of the ‘New York Times.’

When women are missing from the history we tell, sometimes it’s because of how their stories were preserved and told in the past.

The view from nowhere came from somewhere.

‘Time’ magazine and the unraveling of the American consensus.

The paper’s anti-trans coverage parallels its failings over gay rights and AIDS. But the Times appears determined not to learn from its own history.