Dark Archives: A Librarian’s Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin

Christine Jacobson is assistant curator of Modern Books and Manuscripts at Harvard University’s Houghton Library. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and tweets at @internetstine.

Christine Jacobson

A Look at Anthropodermic Bibliopegy: On Megan Rosenbloom’s “Dark Archives”

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

History

Giving “Doctor Zhivago” Another Chance

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Around the World

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

Christine Jacobson is assistant curator of Modern Books and Manuscripts at Harvard University’s Houghton Library. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and tweets at @internetstine.