A Survey of McNally Editions, the Boutique Publisher of Out-of-Print Gems - The Seattle Times
The impeccably curated New York bookstore McNally Jackson has launched a publishing arm, McNally Editions, dedicated to resurfacing “hidden gems” and “lost classics.” These are works that have gone out of print or been otherwise neglected by the factory that is book publishing with no reflection on their merit or timeliness. Now they are given a new life.
Ninety Years Ago, This Book Tried to Warn Us
Pamela Paul on the re-issue of Lion Feuchtwanger’s The Oppermanns.
Excerpt: A Classic Novel of the Nazis’ Rise That Holds Lessons for Today
Lion Feuchtwanger’s 1933 novel “The Oppermanns,” newly reissued, raises salient questions about the relationship between art and politics.
The Enigma of Nonarrival: on the Guyanese Author Roy Heath
Though Roy Heath spent most of his life in Britain, he returned again and again in his fiction to Guyana.
His First Novel Was a Critical Hit. Two Decades Later, He Rewrote It.
Many fiction writers wind up wishing they could redraft their early works. Akhil Sharma actually did.
The Calamity of Unwanted Motherhood - The Atlantic
Penelope Mortimer’s 64-year-old novel is a powerful argument for letting women choose when and whether they become a parent.
Read Like The Wind: Zoology and Org Charts
Molly Young on Han Suyin’s “Winter Love.”
The New Yorker: Rediscovering a Lost Dystopia and Its Prescient Author
Kay Dick, a queer editor and writer, died in obscurity in 2001. Did her novella “They” foreshadow our present discontent?