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 The New ...

Harvard University recently made a decision to remove a book with human skin binding from its campus library. Out of a collection of 20 million books found at Houghton Library, Arsène Houssaye’s Des ...

Harvard University has removed human skin from the binding of a 19th-century text because it was taken without consent from a deceased woman. Harvard Library announced this month that it had removed ...

CAMBRIDGE — Exhibition titles don’t come more alliteratively straightforward than “Big Books, Tiny Tomes,” which runs at Harvard’s Houghton Library through Aug. 9. Houghton is the university’s ...

When Harvard’s Fine Arts Library was phasing out its antiquated card catalog, long since supplanted by online listings, the staff gave some of the wooden racks to Kyle Courtney in recognition of his ...