Announcing Marginalian Editions
A New Imprint with Maria Popova
Dear readers,
We’re delighted to announce the launch of Marginalian Editions—a collaboration between McNally Jackson Books and Maria Popova, the visionary writer and creator of The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings). For nearly twenty years, Maria has been unearthing lost treasures of insight, creativity, and wonder, and sharing them with an ever-growing universe of readers eager to find meaning in a chaotic world. Now, through Marginalian Editions, she’s bringing three of those lost masterworks back into print each year in beautiful hardcover editions.
Ranging across science and philosophy, poetry and children’s literature, every work in the Marginalian Editions imprint offers what Popova calls “an act of resistance to the erasures of culture and a loving corrective for the collective selective memory called history.”
Willard Gibbs: The Whole Is Simpler than Its Parts, Muriel Rukeyser
Foreword by Maria Popova
“Muriel Rukeyser[’s] five-hundred-page prose poem about the creative spirit, anchored in the life and legacy of Willard Gibbs [is] a benediction of science, democracy, and the imagination, disguised as a biography of a lonely forgotten genius who shaped the modern world.” —Maria Popova, from the Foreword
Is Peace Possible?, Kathleen Lonsdale
Foreword by Maria Popova
Marginalian Editions presents a trailblazing Quaker scientist’s slender masterwork of moral courage, penned at the height of the Cold War, envisioning a transformation of the human spirit and our politics that might enable the triumph of peace.
Alpha and Omega, Jane Ellen Harrison
Foreword by Maria Popova
“Jane Ellen Harrison, the maverick Cambridge classicist and celebrity public intellectual . . . cultivated a distinctive brand of quirky and memorable outspokenness . . . with her sparky wit and refusal to be silenced . . . She remains my hero . . . She has remained the iron in my soul.” —Mary Beard, London Review of Books
We invite you to explore the first three titles arriving this spring and summer by browsing our website.
