These toxic books, produced in the 19th century, are bound in vivid cloth colored with a notorious pigment known as emerald green that’s laced with arsenic. Many of them are going unnoticed on ...

Prolonged exposure to multiple green books can cause low level arsenic poisoning. Long-term exposure can cause changes to the skin, harm to the liver and kidneys and a reduction in red and white blood ...

You probably do not need us to tell you that Arsenic is not healthy stuff. This wasn’t always such common knowledge, as for a ...

John Green on book bans, bad faith, and the ‘history of folks trying to control what other folks can read’ ‘Looking For Alaska’, Green’s 2005 debut, has been a target of book banning ...