Stunning Vintage Illustrations of Don Quixote by Spanish Graphic Design Pioneer Roc Riera Rojas. Donating = loving Brain Pickings remains ad-free and takes hundreds of hours a month to research and write, and thousands of dollars to sustain.
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And without meaning, men and women will “go stark, raving mad.” For the deeply skeptical and agnostic Albert Camus, Dostoyevsky’s books were a revelation. While he couldn’t agree with the Russian novelist’s prescription of faith in an unseen deity, Camus felt Dostoyevsky had convincingly described the tragedy of man’s existence in an indifferent universe. 12 of the Most Beautiful Literary Magazines Online. We’ve been hearing that print is dead for years now.
It obviously isn’t true: look at the beautiful food magazine Lucky Peach, or any issue of McSweeney’s, or the excitement around reissues of old classics with fresh cover designs (Peter Mendelsund’s Kafka editions, anyone?) , or any other print book with striking presentation (the paperbacks of Bolaño’s 2666 or Murakami’s 1Q84, to name just a couple). Yet the Web has grown into an equally great place for lovely presentation of lovely writing. Long-established journalism outlets have moved their book coverage online, or revamped it— check out the Slate Book Review, or the New Yorker’s renamed Page-Turner blog — but scores of literary magazines have been killing it online for years.
We’d like to present just a few that have particularly nice design online.
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