Katy O’Donnell has been brought on to the Nation Books team.
O’Donnell will serve as an associate editor. She will work with editorial director Alessandra Bastagli.
Throughout her career, O’Donnell has held editorial positions at Overlook Press and Basic Books. Some of the books she has edited include Edward Baptist’s The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism, John Merriman’s Massacre: The Life and Death of the Paris Commune, and Eugene Rogan’s The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East.