Tag
twentieth century
Letters
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.
Reissues
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.