A review by gargamela
Paper: An Elegy by Ian Sansom

3.0

I picked this book because the cover promised a deep incursion into the history of paper and an exercise of imagination related to a world without paper. However, what I got was an eclectic collection of the author's musings on particular topics such as the uses of paper in art, politics etc. Some of its trivia was interesting, but I felt that no topic was explored in an orderly fashion and, in the end, this left me with the impression of a coffee table book that was missing the beautiful pictures.