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women writers
Reissues
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.
Reissues
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.