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If you were dying to read the Epstein files on paper for some reason, you can now save yourself some printer ink. A reading room containing all 3.5 million pages of records related to Jeffrey Epstein that were released by the Department of Justiceopens Fridayin a Tribeca gallery. (You have to RSVP for the address, it seems.) The by-appointment-only pop-up is being put on by a nonprofit called the Institute for Primary Facts and will also include a timeline of Epstein and Donald Trump’s relationship. Thusly named the Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room, the project is part art installation, part museum exhibit, and part cursed archive where the only reading materials are emails to and from Jeffrey Epstein.
There are 3,437 volumes consisting of 17,000 pounds of files. Why do this? “The Reading Room keeps public attention fixed on the crimes of Epstein and the Epstein class, and on Trump’s desperate attempts to bury them,” per the project’swebsite. The organizer of the exhibittoldWiredthat while members of the public can view the space and the timeline, only journalists and law enforcement can actually read the files, since the DoJ failed to redact some of the names of victims. The whole thing will be open until May 21.
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