Publishers Noted: In which our publisher reviews the building of another publisher.
“The thing you are writing on—I built by hand,” Remeike Forbes, creative director of Jacobin, tells me on an October afternoon. We are in the oldest part of Jacobin’s office, and I am taking notes on a standing desk that he built. There are busts of Trotsky, Lenin, and Lincoln. There are three framed photographs of the Italian Communist Palmiro Togliatti playing chess on the wall. A red ceiling soffit proclaims, “SOCIALISM IN OUR TIME.”
Photographs of Jacobin’s office, including Remeike standing at his desk. …