The indigenous Baining people from Papua New Guinea use this word (pronounced aw-um-book) to describe the emptiness after visitors leave. To counter this empty feeling, the Baining fill a bowl ...

You probably didn't know there was a name for that. This is the word for the yellowish-brown discolorations you sometimes see on the pages of old books. The pages would be described as "foxed." ...

When a book is so gloriously itself ... Which makes me think, why is it so difficult to describe literature? If words could be used to accurately explain anything, you’d think it’d be other ...