Magnificent Octopus

Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany , by Jane Mount, is whimsical and lovely, a true miscellany. I kind of love it for its lists and gr...

I found a book at the bookstore, and I wanted it, I wanted it badly. But the more I turned it over, the more I realized I didn't want it...

It's Independent Bookstore Day , and I feel I ought to spend my day patronizing some. Truth is, there aren't too many in these parts...

In Vancouver a little while ago we peeked in on the exhibit Becoming Animal/Becoming Landscape at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery a...

1.1 Satin Island , by Tom McCarthy, is one of my favourite books in recent history. 2.1 Some books I want to read cold. I don't want r...

The cover that judges you . More . Via . I'm not convinced that a book should demand neutrality from its reader.

Margaret Atwood's Maddaddam includes a marvelous typography note honouring Walbaum, #17 on a list of the 100 best typefaces of all time...

TED Talks: Chip Kidd, a page-turning, dog-earring, notes-in-the-margins-taking ink sniffer.

For reasons I won't get into just now, I'm doing some background reading on Sylvia Plath. Among other books, I ordered Johnny Pani...

This weekend I was sucked into the vortex that is eBay, a world I haven't visited this past decade and which I'd almost forgotten ex...

(Or, a birthday wishlist.) For my legs: Love text , tights by Zohara. For my walls: 100 book covers to fight illiteracy . 100 artist...

True to form, I've been meaning to see a particular art exhibit for weeks, but I've been putting it off or forgetting, until now, ju...

It's a tiny — but perfectly readable — little book , about the size of a cassette tape. Its orientation is perpendicular to that of a...