Independent reading · Issue 14

The slow press,
set in ink.

A quarterly for long reads, set with care and meant to be finished, no feed, no autoplay, just a sentence after a sentence.

3 long essays 92 printed pages Set in Zodiak & Switzer Summer 2026

Featured in this issue

Three essays · marginandco.press
01 Field notes

The patience of long paragraphs

On reading at the speed of a walk, and why the longest sentences are often the kindest.

By Edith Marlowe · 18 min

02 Essay

A room that holds its silence

A reporter returns to the last letterpress shop on the river, where the machines still keep time.

By Tomás Field · 24 min

03 Memoir

Everything I underlined at twenty

A writer reopens the books that marked her, and finds the margins say more than the text.

By Priya Vance · 16 min

From the archive

Thirteen issues · since 2021
№ 13 Notes from a quiet yearSpring 2026 · 88 pages Sold out Read excerpt → № 12 The shape of attentionWinter 2025 · 96 pages In print · €18 Order issue → № 11 Everything we keptAutumn 2025 · 84 pages In print · €18 Order issue → № 10 A decade of marginsSummer 2025 · 104 pages Sold out Read excerpt → № 09 On rereadingSpring 2025 · 80 pages In print · €18 Order issue → № 08 The long formWinter 2024 · 92 pages In print · €18 Order issue →

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