Dostoevsky translated by Yoda

Stuart Jeffries has written an amusing article about the inversion of normal English word order that most translations of Братья Карамазовы use, following the Russian pattern slavishly in a way that we would think most odd if it were applied to the Brothers Warner or the Brothers Marx. (The OWC edition calls them The Karamazov Brothers.)

Tibetan type

This post is really just an excuse to link to Jo de Baerdemaeker’s website, showing his work on Tibetan typeface design (an a rather nice display sanserif, too).