Reissues editor
Devon Cree
Devon Cree is a literary archivist who edits Threadcount's Reissues section from a small office at the University of Regina.
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Published in Threadcount Review
The Footnote or the Gloss: A Translator's Invisible Decisions
When a foreign word will not behave, the translator can footnote it, gloss it inside the sentence, or trust the reader. Three recent books test all three.
McNally Editions and the Small American Reissue Boom
McNally Editions, the reissue imprint launched in 2021 by the Brooklyn bookseller McNally Jackson, has now published forty-six titles. Devon Cree visits the imprint's editorial office and considers the wider American small-press reissue surge.
NYRB Classics in Its Third Decade, and the Trust Built on Black Borders
The New York Review of Books's reissue imprint has now published more than four hundred and twenty titles. Its uniform jackets remain, against expectation, the engine of the project.
The Abandoned Book and What It Tells Us
On the books we stop reading, and the small honest information they carry about us as readers.
Powell's City of Books, After Eleven
A late shift in the Burnside Street flagship of Powell's, the Portland used-and-new bookshop that occupies a full city block, when the foot traffic has thinned and the booksellers begin the long re-shelving of the day's churn.
NYRB Classics in Its Third Decade: A Quiet Empire of the Unfinished
Since 1999, the New York Review Books Classics imprint has reissued more than 500 titles. Devon Cree reads its spring 2026 list against the imprint's first decade and finds a press that has changed less than it pretends to have.
The Borges Translators of Rosario and Utrecht
For twenty-seven years, an Argentine architect and a Dutch civil servant exchanged drafts of the same Borges stories. The archive is now at a small university in Saskatchewan.