Getty Harvard University announced Wednesday that it had removed human skin from the binding of Des destinées de l'âme, a book from Houghton Library, after a review found the book failed to meet ...

For the last 90 years, Harvard University has had a book bound with human skin in its library collection. But in late March, because of the book’s “ethically fraught nature,” university ...

The book, bound in human flesh and housed in Houghton Library for almost a century, was so popular that it had inspired hazing rituals at Harvard University. College students employed by the ...