A new report backed by the American Chemical Society warned that colorfully bound books from the Victorian era are likely packed with toxic dyes, calling on librarians, archivists and researchers to ...

CORRECTION: A photo caption in an earlier version of this article gave incorrect information about Barbara Heritage’s job. She is the director of collections, exhibitions and scholarly initiatives at ...

The cover to the new Toxic Avenger comic. (Courtesy Ahoy Comics) “The Toxic Avenger” was a 1980s camp classic, a horror action-comedy introducing a janitor who faces a grotesque transformation — but ...

Now, it's not news that some people consider books to be dangerous. They can mean that in a negative way, as when communities try to contain books, get them off the library shelves. They can mean that ...

As a graduate student in Laramie, Wyo., in the 1990s, Sarah Mentock spent many weekends hunting for bargains at neighborhood yard sales. On one of those weekends, she spotted “The Lord of the Isles,” ...