Digest
Stepping into Arion Press’s new space in San Francisco is a bit like stepping into the past.
How do libraries approach books that defy simple classification? Artists’ books often intersect text, photography, and graphic design; some have embedded objects or even kinetic components.
A bookseller who collects books? At first glance, it seems like a contradiction.
Artist Tim Youd’s intention to become a better reader goes to extremes, and typewriters are key to this endeavor, called The 100 Novels Project.
When most of us finish a book we’ve enjoyed, we might make a note in a journal, post about it on social media, or maybe mention it to a friend.
The Morgan Library & Museum in New York City began its life as financier John Pierpont Morgan’s private collection.
Ada Limón, the twenty-fourth United States poet laureate, has frequently written about nature in her six poetry books.
Chaining your books to the shelf to protect them from light-fingered readers has fallen out of fashion, but maybe it’s time to fall back on another popular medieval solution to thievery: the book c
In the heart of Charleston, South Carolina’s downtown, stands an impressive Beaux-Arts structure often mistaken for an opera house or a city hall.
Thanks to the meticulous notes of centuries-old botanists, farmers, and hearty sailors plying the ocean’s depths, researchers can use rare books and records to understand how things were, how thing
