Department
Publishers
Sort of Books in Edinburgh, independent press accounting, what a small-press editor does in a day, the long Knopf list.
A Day at Actes Sud, and the Long Argument About Place
The French publisher's headquarters in Arles operate on a rhythm that the Paris trade has not quite forgiven for forty-eight years.
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.
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.
What a Small-Press Editor Does in a Working Day
An eight-hour shadow at Pelham House Press in Manchester reveals an editorial role that is mostly administration interrupted by reading.
Carcanet's Poetry List at Fifty, Looked at Plainly
Michael Schmidt's Manchester poetry press has issued about nine hundred titles since 1969. Its successor editors are now in their second year of running it.
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 Rivers Press and the Reading Public It Does Not Quite Have
A small Welsh poetry press has published a hundred and thirty-eight books in twenty-two years. Its average print run has fallen by half in that time.
Sort of Books in Edinburgh, Twenty Years On
A small Scottish imprint has published forty-two titles since 2005. Its accountant says the numbers still surprise her.