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Reissues
NYRB Classics, Pushkin Press, Persephone Books — the small imprints that bring books back into the world.
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.
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.
The Penguin Modern Classics Rebrand and the Long Memory of a Series
Penguin Modern Classics rolled out a redesigned cover format in March 2026, the fourth such redesign since the series began in 1961. Saul Pickering examines what the new format conceals and what the long-running list still gets right.
Dalkey Archive After John O'Brien: An Imprint Tries to Stay Itself
Dalkey Archive Press, the experimental fiction imprint founded by John O'Brien in 1984, was acquired in 2022 by Deep Vellum. Ronan Devlin reads the post-acquisition list and asks whether the catalogue still recognises itself.
Carcanet Press at Fifty: A Manchester Poetry List Considered
Carcanet Press, founded in Oxford in 1969 and based in Manchester since 1972, marks fifty-seven years of continuous publishing in 2026. Naïma Bouallam reviews the spring list and the long arc of the press's poetry catalogue.
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.
Pushkin Press at the Edges of the Map
Pushkin Press's translation list now spans 47 source languages. Saul Pickering walks through the imprint's 2026 catalogue and asks whether a press built on rescuing the obscure has begun to resemble its more famous neighbours.
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.