Originally appearing in 2025 as one in a series of six articles in an online magazine, Against Coffee Table Books is refashioned here here as a short treatise providing a straightforward and honest guide to navigating the complex world of contemporary publishing.
Or rather, everything that orbits around books, from their formats and modes of display to how we collect them and the ways we read them.
To explore these questions, Davide Tolfo and Federico Antonini turned to little-known and experimental sciences – the Readers' Entomology, the Ethology of Bookshelves, among others – which allowed them to tackle philosophical and existential questions such as: why do we buy more books than we read?
Bruno, 112pp, 11cm x 17cm, paperback, 2026
