Title: Fake (Object Lessons)
Description: The electric candle and faux fur, coffee substitutes and meat analogues, Obama impersonators, prosthetics. Imitation this, false that. Humans have been replacing and improving upon the real thing for millennia - from wooden toes found on Egyptian mummies to the Luxor pyramid in Las Vegas. So why do people have such disdain for so-called "fakes"?

Kati Stevens's *Fake* discusses the strange history of imitations, as well as our ever-changing psychological and socioeconomic relationships with them. After all, fakes aren't going anywhere; they seem to be going everywhere.
Subjects: Imitation, Substitute products, Forgery, Product counterfeiting, Counterfeits and counterfeiting, Literary theory