"Kurlansky’s telling of this history...is swift, crisp, and deft."— Reid Mitenbuler The Atlantic
"[An] historical journey well worth the ride. [Kurlansky] has a deep instinct for telling detail, which he combines with a disarmingly fun narrative style."— Los Angeles Times
"An historical journey well worth the ride. [Kurlansky] has a deep instinct for telling detail, which he combines with a disarmingly fun narrative style. Kurlansky makes a compelling case that paper has always been a revolutionary force – a foundation for expression of every sort — and that it is certainly not dead yet."— Elizabeth Taylor The National Book Review
"Kurlanksy tells [the history of paper] vividly in this compact and well-illustrated book….He has a sharp eye for curious details….[and] offers a versatile introduction to this long and complicated history."— Anthony Grafton New York Times Book Review
"A beautiful thing to hold and feel, and it presents a fine argument for the retention of paper as an aesthetically lusty object."— Simon Garfield The Observer
"One learns an awful lot from [Paper], all packaged in Kurlansky’s whipsmart prose."— John Sutherland The Times (London)
"Littered with amazing facts."— Lily Rothman Time magazine
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