In our culture of consumption, we are all, in a sense, fetishists, whether we covet a Birkin bag or a Bugatti, argues Anastasiia Fedorova in her debut book. In Second Skin, Fedorova seeks to ...

One of the worst things that humanity can do to ‘knowledge and education’- is destroy books. Burning and damaging any kind of book has always been part of historical stories that never ended ...

Moyse’s Hall Museum in Suffolk has put on display a book bound in the skin of William Corder, who was executed for the Red Barn Murder in 1828. A second, long-forgotten book bound with his skin ...

Granta Books has acquired Second Skin by Anastasiia Fedorova, billed as “a personal tour through different sexual fetishes – the materials, objects and power dynamics commonly fetishised ...

“Idaho,” I’d insist through gritted teeth. It was at times like these I wanted a second skin that I could swap with my own. Like other queer people of color, I started confronting the twin ...