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Marguerite Adler
Marguerite Adler founded Threadcount Review after fourteen years editing for a quarterly literary magazine. She writes the longest reviews herself.
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An American Non-Fiction from Graywolf
Christopher Ridenour's <em>The Walking Survey</em>, published by Graywolf Press on 2026-06-11, is a 274-page account of one geographer's attempt to walk the Pennsylvania portion of the Mason-Dixon Line in the summer of 2023.
The Gilead Cycle Finished: A Late Reading of Marilynne Robinson's Four Novels
A return to the four Gilead novels in the spring of 2026, with the question of what the cycle has become now that <em>Jack</em> has settled into its position as the volume that closes it.
Virago Modern Classics at Forty-Five: The Green Spine, Considered
Virago Modern Classics, launched by Carmen Callil in 1978, marks forty-eight years of continuous publishing in 2026. Marguerite Adler walks through the green-spine list across four decades and asks what the imprint still has to do.
The Postcard as a Prose Form
An argument that the postcard, constrained by space and exposed to every reader along the way, has produced some of the most precise prose of the twentieth century.
Deborah Eisenberg's Collected Stories: A Late Reckoning
Picador's 2026 omnibus collects all seven volumes of Deborah Eisenberg's short fiction in one binding, occasion for a sustained reading of one of the strangest careers in American letters.
Sebald, Twenty-Five Years On: The Four Books, Reread
A return to the four prose works of W. G. Sebald in the spring of 2026, twenty-five years after his death, and the question of what survives the imitation that has followed.
The Long Knopf List, Surveyed
A reading of the Borzoi books published between 1915 and 2025 reveals an imprint whose identity has shifted three times and whose taste, by some measures, has not.
The Re-Read: On Returning to a Book
On the kind of reading that only happens the second time, and the books that ask for it.
The City Lights Staircase After Seventy Years
A long afternoon in the upstairs poetry room at City Lights Booksellers on Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, considered both as a working bookshop and as a literary institution that has carried a particular editorial position since Lawrence Ferlinghetti opened it in 1953.
Iowa Soil, Iowa Counties: A Small Press Non-Fiction
Hannah Voss's <em>The County and the Furrow</em>, from Belt Publishing on 2026-05-06, is a quiet 248-page report on land tenure in three Iowa counties between 1980 and 2024. It is the kind of book that gets ignored and shouldn't.
The Postscript as a Literary Form
The PS, the second PS, the marginal note added in different ink: a brief defense of the most undervalued unit in the history of the personal letter.
The Translator's Preface as an Art Form
What can a translator say before her book begins? A close reading of five recent prefaces and the small rhetorical tradition they belong to.
Persephone Books and the Slow Recovery of a Mid-Century Library
Persephone Books reopened its physical shop in Bath last year, twenty-six years after Nicola Beauman founded the press. Marguerite Adler visits the shop and reads the spring 2026 reissues against the original Bloomsbury catalogue.
Independent Press Accounting, the Unsentimental Version
Four small publishers opened their books to a quarterly review. The numbers were not as bad, or as good, as the trade suggests.
Two Hands on the Page: Co-Translation as a Working Method
When Jenny Erpenbeck's American voice belongs to two people, what does the second translator actually do? A look at four working co-translation partnerships.
Against Fast Reading: An Argument from a Slow Bench
An argument for slow reading, made from a battered chair in a Boston flat by a reader who has tried, and failed, to read 100 books in a year.
The Long Sentence: Reading Knausgaard's Six Volumes in One Summer
A sustained reading of the complete <em>My Struggle</em> across June, July, and August of 2026, and the question of what the project actually accomplishes when read end to end.