by Franklin Foer

TNR has a publishing imprint housed at Yale University Press. We've been kicking around the idea of starting a line that revives out of print books, just like the fantastic New York Review of Books series. The idea is simple: There are a lot of great books that have undeservingly dropped out of circulation. Thanks to ABE Books and the internet these volumes haven't quite died. But they still don't have the life they deserve. TNR and Yale would commission new introductions to these works and reintroduce them to the broader world. So, I wanted to put the question to a blog and reader vote: What books of politics, economics, sociology, criticism, etc. should we try to reprint? What has history and the publishing industry treated unkindly? I'll begin by nominating Dwight MacDonald's oeuvre. There's only one volume of his, I think, still in print. It's hard to find anything from his days at Politics, his career as a film critic, or the bulk of his New Yorker work. He's probably more discussed than read--and his brand of cultural criticism is much needed and hardly prevalent. I can't wait to see what others propose.