People 7/30

Raquel Pelzel will join as editorial director on September 3, reporting to Michael Szczerban. She was editorial director for cooking at Clarkson Potter.

Sydney Collins is promoted to associate editor.

Sarah Lambert will join as head of fiction in September, succeeding Ellen Holgate.

John McMurtrie will become nonfiction editor on August 1, reporting to editor-in-chief Tom Beer. He was senior editor at Zyzzyva, and was previously the books editor at the San Francisco Chronicle until 2019.