Ex Libris is a collection of reviews, recommendations and appreciations of books and authors. It covers a huge range of interests, fiction, history, biography as well as speeches and poetry. Themes recur in the selection including the writing by children of immigrants to America and most often Trump and the tumult that he brought to American life. Democracy is covered from de Tocqueville to Orwell and Arendt.

It has a number of beautiful full page illustrations with imagined covers for some of the titles in an art deco style. The book generally is beautifully presented from the text font to the structure of the pull quotes. It is something that is meant to be consumed as a physical book.

Sometimes the selections lead from one to another or circulate a theme but it is just as easy to select a title at random and navigate the book by chance.