It’s becoming an increasingly common sight online: a beloved indie bookstore—this week it was Imagined Things in Harrogate, Yorkshire—reports a record-low day of takings and earnestly appeals for help from Twitter. The good people… Read more »

Anonymous artists, in our panoptical information age, have become increasingly rare. While graffiti artists like Banksy or Rambo obscure their identities behind a sobriquet to avoid prosecution for vandalism, actual unknown and… Read more »

The veneration of books has always laid traps for the reckless and unwary, and it has frequently mutated into perversity. Many young lovers of books, for instance, have awakened to… Read more »