Eating your way through the classics with Fictitious Dishes
This week Melville House celebrates the latest release in our series of Pepe Carvalho mysteries from Spanish author Manuel Vázquez Montalbán. In Off Side, the pressure is on Carvalho to find… Read more »
Somewhere in France, the Anglomaniacs meet the Germans: Nina Katchadourian’s Sorted Books Project
Nina Katchadourian is an artist who photographs the covers or spines of certain books next to each other, so that the titles form a connected series. Such as: Katchadourian has… Read more »
Amazon pulls controversial Caravaggio book
The bad-boy painter of the Italian Baroque has stirred up trouble again. As a report from the Daily Telegraph explains, “A controversial new book in which two Italian art historians… Read more »
Literaturwurst: not the worst of literature
There are lots of ways to express one’s dislike of a book, but if you’re Dieter Roth, German-Swiss artist whose wide and varied output included many works incorporating food, giving… 3 / Read more »
Beautiful art carved out of books
Bibliophiles might find it painful to see books cut apart and rendered unreadable, but what if it’s for the sake of art? Design blog Colossal has posted a series of photos… Read more »