Michelle Anne Schingler reflects on reading The Handmaid’s Talein a time when the dystopia looks less and less far-fetched. (Book Riot)
Frank Furedi discusses the history of “the bookish fool,” people who collect books for status and not for the pleasure of reading them. (Aeon)
Brandi Bailey reevaluates her reading life. (Book Riot)
Megan Rosenblum shares the macabre and fascinating history of anthropodermic bibliopegy: the creation of books bound in human skin. Most people I mention this practice to get immediately squicked out. For some reason, they can’t see the appeal of becoming a book after they’re done with their skin. (Lapham’s Quarterly)
