Apparently there’s a better way to handle books you no longer need than destroying 250,000 of them, as my home county’s library system did this year. The Birmingham Public Library,… Read more »

If you couldn’t get rid of your old print encyclopedia any other way, would you burn it? That’s what author and philosopher Julian Baggini did recently in a field in… Read more »

A car bomb set off on March 5, 2007 in Iraq killed thirty, wounded 100, and hit the center for bookselling and cultural exchange in Baghdad. This was a major… Read more »

The pages of A Course in Correct Cataloguing, or Notes to the Neophyte and A Second Course in Correct Cataloguing, two humorous glossaries written by legendary bookseller David Magee, make… Read more »

Despite the flak that Lauren Conrad received for cutting up old books for an art project, I still think that art created from deconstructed books is a really cool idea… Read more »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Looks like a trip to Paris is in order. We should all go, as in immediately, and geek out over Chinese artist Liu Wei’s cityscape sculptures. Look at these things.… Read more »