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Asymptote Blog Book Club
29.11.2024
Izumi feels emotions at their extremes, and she considers ideas to their ends.
22.11.2024
One of Levrero’s first publishers described him as a realist writer who lives on another planet.
01.11.2024
Life, as Levrero’s literature evidences, is richer and more beautiful when we follow our whims.
24.10.2024
. . . even in the face of oppression, Arab women . . . take a role in constructing their realities, demonstrating agency despite what they endure.
01.10.2024
Alatawan’s novel is both personal and political; at its heart, it’s a story about freedom.
27.09.2024
I think Eva is still trying the novel form on for size, figuring out what suits her.
30.08.2024
The spirit of the zoo has entered her bedroom: sex without pleasure, purely for the sake of regeneration, a blind but demanding impulse.
23.08.2024
Great writers use language in really weird ways, but if it’s a great writer, the work absorbs the linguistic strangeness. . .
01.08.2024
Tawada’s music-prose is a testament to the spirit of collaboration. . .
26.07.2024
I love the idea of translating something that people say is not translatable, because everything is translatable.
28.06.2024
Tongueless . . . [mirrors] Hong Kong’s plurality and [elucidates] the darkening, authoritarian clarity of Hong Kong’s future.
21.06.2024
[A]s ephemeral, beautiful, and delicate as these stories are, they are firmly grounded in history. . .
31.05.2024
These stories are a spatial message; they tell of living amongst, and in this way, they belong to everyone.
24.05.2024
Oh, plans. I can't make plans. I'm a translator.
30.04.2024
Nikolaidis’ very literal rendition of the Book of Revelation is unflinching, darkly humorous, and relentless in its pursuit. . .
22.03.2024
I love the world in Arabic, so I started to write it as my personal space.
01.03.2024
Where the Wind Calls Home sidesteps the instant of carnage and cruelty, focusing instead on its shattered aftermath. . .
23.02.2024
Here are the losses. Just listen this time. That directness is so wonderful.
01.02.2024
Karam stretches the limits of conventional narrative writing. . . the result is a work of true formal experimentation without . . . artifice.
26.01.2024
There's a collective responsibility in engaging with these stories, reflecting on our own roles, and finding meaning in the midst of uncertainty.
02.01.2024
Is reading adventurously one of your New Year’s resolutions? We can help with that!
30.12.2023
[Maalouf] offers us a human way to experience cataclysm without masking the confusion and desperation that takes hold. . .
22.12.2023
I have the responsibility to go to the end with a good book.
17.12.2023
Who doesn’t love a year of adventurous reads—chosen from the latest in translation and delivered directly to their door?
30.11.2023
Kinderland contains its call for kindness within concentric circles of humor, irony, and tragedy. . .
24.11.2023
There is this very human, normal, everyday level, and at the same time there's this big, spiritual, complicated stuff.
31.10.2023
Fosse understands that this experience he recounts is beyond rational belief; it resists all efforts to restrain it into language.
21.10.2023
For me, it was important to talk about everyone's story and experience with the term “motherhood”.
13.10.2023
To resist, the women in Birth Canal—as object of desire, porn actress, and sex worker—must stare back in their own fashion. . .
21.09.2023
"Words by themselves don’t do much in literature; we encounter them inside syntax."
31.08.2023
Ojen writes along the pulse, and everything she describes is powered by the thrashing motions of something holding on to life.
24.08.2023
Life isn’t one-dimensional; it’s a blend of emotions, absurdity, and different tones. . .
27.07.2023
Posthuma develops an affecting novel about grief by embracing its full complexity.
That’s what is cool about Specters—it tries to explore how government censorship affects the world of art.
19.07.2023
That’s a major part of translation: to make sure that it's still the original book.
29.06.2023
Reut senses more and more how even common tongues can quickly become incommensurable walls, especially within the confines of her family.
22.06.2023
He's very aware of the rhythm and musicality of this text . . . he said it should take something like an hour and thirty-seven minutes to read.
06.06.2023
For every moment of beauty, there is the shadow of cruelty hanging in the background.
31.05.2023
27.04.2023
Fact and fiction are irrelevant.