Recently, I moved to a smaller home. I’d helped my parents downsize twice, so I understood that no one wanted my old stuff any more than I’d wanted theirs. And while I’m generally unsentimental about ...

Over the past two months, I’ve been sorting and culling the vast number of books I’ve accumulated in a lifetime of reading and collecting. What do I mean by vast? It’s hard to say precisely, but, ...

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. Perfecting a coffee-table-book collection is much like curating anything else — the more personal and ...