Paper Crane Books

10/24/2016

At a time when museums are increasingly cash strapped who would have thought that a bunch of women wearing gorilla masks to disseminate a series of outrageous graphics would prove to be the most effective...

09/27/2016

09/26/2016

/Sherman Alexie has the distinct honor of topping the list of most-banned books. Photo by Chase Jarvis./ What do a picture book about gay penguins, a graphic memoir centered on Iran, and a comic about cosmic war have in common? They’re all among the books that were most likely to be challenge...

09/15/2016

Here are 6 reasons you should take a long lunch tomorrow and head off to your local museum.

09/08/2016

09/02/2016

Gotta love that medieval marginalia....

Get the whole picture - and other photos from Damien Kempf

09/01/2016

The dark trade of collecting books used to get really messy.

08/22/2016

The great British empiricist Francis Bacon once remarked that Johannes Gutenberg’s printing press “changed the whole face and state of the world.' Although Gutenberg did not independently devise the press, he invented a mass-production process of moveable type and concocted an oil-based ink which, w...

08/10/2016

There's nothing like sharing a book with your kid — except maybe jumping inside one. Discover the Rabbit hOle, the world's first "ExploraStorium."

07/29/2016

Four decades ago, the Strand created a short literature test for job applicants, which has become as much a part of the bookstore’s identity as its tote bags.

07/15/2016

Happy Rosetta Stone Day!!!

07/06/2016

Haidara told nobody outside his fellow librarians what he was doing—not even his family.