The quirky British publishing upstart Visual Editions have been making a lot of headlines over the past few months with their newest book, Jonathan Safran Foer’s Tree of Codes. (And… 2 / Read more »

A fund-raiser for the Sandy Museum, in Sandy, Utah turned up something thoroughly unexpected. According to a Fox 13 report, a man brought in a book that turned out to… Read more »

This weekend, November 4-7, New York City hosts two significant celebrations of printed book culture: The fifth annual NY Art Book Fair, presented by Printed Matter at MoMA PS1, and… Read more »

With talk of e-books dominating the conversation these days–everyone’s reading them, Amazon may or may not have sold some number of Kindles but no one’s sure, and look! now e-books… Read more »

… or, rather, are teeth. British artist James Hopkins uses shelves and the things you put on them (like books! actual books!) to create his art. Try doing that with… Read more »

… “luxury publisher” Kraken Opus, for a $75,000 book on Indian cricket star Sachin Tendulkar. Why so much, you ask? Well, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal,… 2 / Read more »

“A massive new study of Philadelphia artist Thomas Eakins, 14 years in the writing, nearly 600 pages in length, is deemed ‘provocative’ and ‘controversial’ by its publisher — which may,… Read more »

Some good novelists have new books coming out this spring, including Ian McEwan and Kazuo Ishiguro, and, as Robert Crum observes, “these contemporary maestros will be reviewed and interviewed, profiled… Read more »