20 years after the wall fell
Reunification reads: Germany Then & Now; Granta’s Krauts!; the NYRB’s 1989!; and dissenting perspectives on The Lives of Others.
Reunification reads: Germany Then & Now; Granta’s Krauts!; the NYRB’s 1989!; and dissenting perspectives on The Lives of Others.
“Fuck that with vigour and from a strange direction.” A.L. Kennedy will have none of your novel-is-dead debates. (Via.)
The assignment: redesign Vladimir Nabokov’s book covers, all 21 of them. The result: 21 designers, and, in a nod to the author’s passion for butterfly collection, 21 specimen boxes. See also: Michael Bierut’s eulogy for designer Fred Marcellino, previously at Design Observer, and Nabokov Under Glass.
Michael Hart, founder and former editor of Project Gutenberg, discusses the evolution of the ebooks project. (Via.)