You can feel a subconscious life seething beneath the narrative in Michel Faber’s The Book of Strange New Things. This is a book of secrets, only some of which are eventually revealed on the page.

The idea of binding a book in human skin might seem like something found only in fiction-there's the Necronomicon in the Evil Dead franchise and the sentient spell book in Hocus Pocus-but there are a ...

Harvard’s recent decision to remove the binding of a notorious volume in its library has thrown fresh light on a shadowy corner of the rare book world. By Jennifer Schuessler and Julia Jacobs See more ...