I recently discovered the best named bookstore in America. Mother foucault’s bookshop in Portland, Oregon offers a well curated collection of rare, antiquarian and secondhand books selected by the owner Craig Florence. Located in a somewhat dingy, light industrial neighborhood, the shop’s dull exterior belies an oldworld bookstore charm. Opened in 2010, mother foucault’s is furnished with repurposed wooden bookshelves jam packed with an exceptional range of titles. The stock is strong in literature, literary criticism, foreign language books, history, and of course philosophy.

The bookshop is  a meeting and performance space, hosting poetry readings, music shows and political meetings.