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30.09.2025

Announcing Our September Book Club Selection: Bedbugs by Martina Vidaić - Asymptote Blog

Vidaić’s novel calls out and works within irreconcilable contrasts: inside and outside, urban and rural, educated and less so. . .

Asymptote Blog Book Club

19.09.2025

Living Inside the Text: An Interview with Marilyn Booth on Translating Jan Dost’s Safe Corridor - Asymptote Blog

I do think it’s essential, as a translator, to bring empathy to a text, to make that empathy work in the translation, when it is appropriate.

Asymptote Blog Book Club

02.09.2025

Announcing Our August Book Club Selection: Safe Corridor by Jan Dost - Asymptote Blog

Amidst Safe Corridor’s war, the child has become the historian, recording what adults try to forget.

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25.08.2025

The Poetics of Fatherhood: A Conversation with Robin Myers on Translating Andrés Neuman’s A Father Is Born - Asymptote Blog

[P]reservation in translation is a conversation, opening the work to new and unexpected places.

Asymptote Blog Book Club

01.08.2025

Announcing Our July Book Club Selection: A Father is Born by Andrés Neuman - Asymptote Blog

[Neuman] exposes this version of love for what it is, an ecstatic and embarrassing dissolution of the self.

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29.07.2025

To Bring the People with Us: An Interview with Paul Larkin on Translating Henrik Pontoppidan - Asymptote Blog

The only safeguard against tyranny is democratic (and spiritual/intellectual) courage.

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01.07.2025

Announcing Our June Book Club Selection: The White Bear by Henrik Pontoppidan - Asymptote Blog

Pontoppidan illustrates the continual tension between a contextual existence and the acknowledgment of our own freedoms. . .

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27.06.2025

Unhappy Ending: An Interview with Franziska Gänsler and Imogen Taylor - Asymptote Blog

I wanted to connect my area with a more urgent threat of climate crisis.

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30.05.2025

Announcing Our May Book Club Selection: Eternal Summer by Franziska Gänsler - Asymptote Blog

Gänsler compellingly blurs the lines between heroine and villain, as well as between compassion and self-preservation. . .

Asymptote Blog Book Club

23.05.2025

A Sacred Collaboration with Nature: An Interview with Natalia García Freire and Victor Meadowcroft - Asymptote Blog

I try to find answers in nature, in the mountains, the volcanoes, the animals—I wait for them to tell me something.

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01.05.2025

Announcing Our April Book Club Selection: A Carnival of Atrocities by Natalia García Freire - Asymptote Blog

A dark chorus . . . unfurling a portrait of an unraveling community.

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25.04.2025

Baptism of Fire: An Interview with David Limon - Asymptote Blog

We’re not just translating for an English-speaking audience, but potentially influencing how the work is understood worldwide.

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02.04.2025

Announcing Our March Book Club Selection: On My Kingdom Is Dying by Evald Flisar - Asymptote Blog

This is a book that presents art reflecting reality (or reality reflecting art) at its most potent and bizarre.

Asymptote Blog Book Club

01.04.2025

Announcing Our March Book Club Selection: On My Kingdom Is Dying by Evald Filsar - Asymptote Blog

This is a book that presents art reflecting reality (or reality reflecting art) at its most potent and bizarre.

Asymptote Blog Book Club

21.03.2025

Ordered Chaos: Katy Derbyshire on Translating Zsuzsanna Gahse’s Mountainish - Asymptote Blog

[M]ountains implicitly divide . . . the way we speak, so that people on different sides of the mountain will have a different words for ‘brother’.

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28.02.2025

Announcing Our February Book Club Selection: Mountainish by Zsuzsanna Gahse - Asymptote Blog

One of the pleasures of Mountainish is how its fragments flow together according to an obscure, free-associative logic.

Asymptote Blog Book Club

21.02.2025

Play as Criticism, Curiosity, and Sense-Making: An Interview with Ena Selimović and Maša Kolanović - Asymptote Blog

The world of grown-ups is so violent and boring, with nothing but news and politics, and [the children are] resisting this absurdist language. . .

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31.01.2025

Announcing Our January Book Club Selection: Underground Barbie by Maša Kolanović - Asymptote Blog

[W]ith their youthful waywardness, the children in the novel subject their dolls to some of their most whimsical and anarchic impulses.

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23.01.2025

Voiding the Ego: Charlotte Mandell on Translating Paul Valéry - Asymptote Blog

It doesn't interest me, what [authors] did as people—it's the texts that really matter.

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31.12.2024

Announcing Our December Book Club Selection: Monsieur Teste by Paul Valéry - Asymptote Blog

What Valéry set out to accomplish with his Teste project was . . . a blueprint for intellectual liberation.

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20.12.2024

The It Girl in Her Own Words: Helen O’Horan on Translating Izumi Suzuki - Asymptote Blog

I wanted the translation to feel more emotionally driven, and that’s what I prioritized.

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29.11.2024

Announcing Our November Book Club Selection: Set My Heart on Fire by Izumi Suzuki - Asymptote Blog

Izumi feels emotions at their extremes, and she considers ideas to their ends.

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22.11.2024

By Way of Dreams: Annie McDermott on Translating Mario Levrero - Asymptote Blog

One of Levrero’s first publishers described him as a realist writer who lives on another planet.

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01.11.2024

Announcing Our October Book Club Selection: The Thinking-About-Gladys Machine by Mario Levrero - Asymptote Blog

Life, as Levrero’s literature evidences, is richer and more beautiful when we follow our whims.

Asymptote Blog Book Club

24.10.2024

A Gazan Woman’s Voice: Michelle Hartman and Caline Nasrallah on translating Asmaa Alatawna’s A Long Walk from Gaza - Asymptote Blog

. . . even in the face of oppression, Arab women . . . take a role in constructing their realities, demonstrating agency despite what they endure.

Asymptote Blog Book Club

01.10.2024

Announcing Our September Book Club Selection: A Long Walk From Gaza by Asmaa Alatawna - Asymptote Blog

Alatawan’s novel is both personal and political; at its heart, it’s a story about freedom.

Asymptote Blog Book Club

27.09.2024

Every Word Translucent: Julia Sanches on Translating Eva Baltasar - Asymptote Blog

I think Eva is still trying the novel form on for size, figuring out what suits her.

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30.08.2024

Announcing Our August Book Club Selection: Mammoth by Eva Baltasar - Asymptote Blog

The spirit of the zoo has entered her bedroom: sex without pleasure, purely for the sake of regeneration, a blind but demanding impulse.

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23.08.2024

Nocturnal Tonguejests: Susan Bernofsky on translating Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel - Asymptote Blog

Great writers use language in really weird ways, but if it’s a great writer, the work absorbs the linguistic strangeness. . .

Asymptote Blog Book Club

01.08.2024

Announcing Our July Book Club Selection: Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel by Yoko Tawada - Asymptote Blog

Tawada’s music-prose is a testament to the spirit of collaboration. . .

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26.07.2024

The Languages and Literatures at Play in Hong Kong: Jennifer Feeley on Translating Lau Yee-Wa’s Tongueless - Asymptote Blog

I love the idea of translating something that people say is not translatable, because everything is translatable.

Asymptote Blog Book Club

28.06.2024

Announcing our June Book Club selection: Tongueless by Lau Yee-Wa - Asymptote Blog

Tongueless . . . [mirrors] Hong Kong’s plurality and [elucidates] the darkening, authoritarian clarity of Hong Kong’s future.

Asymptote Blog Book Club

21.06.2024

The Story as Experience: Oonagh Stransky and Marla Moffa on Eugenio Montale’s Butterfly of Dinard - Asymptote Blog

[A]s ephemeral, beautiful, and delicate as these stories are, they are firmly grounded in history. . .

Asymptote Blog Book Club

31.05.2024

Announcing Our May Book Club Selection: Butterfly of Dinard by Eugenio Montale - Asymptote Blog

These stories are a spatial message; they tell of living amongst, and in this way, they belong to everyone.

Asymptote Blog Book Club

24.05.2024

Poetic Justice: Will Firth on Translating Andrej Nikolaidis’ Anomaly - Asymptote Blog

Oh, plans. I can't make plans. I'm a translator.

Asymptote Blog Book Club

30.04.2024

Announcing our April Book Club Selection: Anomaly by Andrej Nikolaidis - Asymptote Blog

Nikolaidis’ very literal rendition of the Book of Revelation is unflinching, darkly humorous, and relentless in its pursuit. . .

Asymptote Blog Book Club

22.03.2024

Scream of Freedom: Samar Yazbek and Leri Price on Where the Wind Calls Home - Asymptote Blog

I love the world in Arabic, so I started to write it as my personal space.

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01.03.2024

Announcing Our February Book Club Selection: Where the Wind Calls Home by Samar Yazbek - Asymptote Blog

Where the Wind Calls Home sidesteps the instant of carnage and cruelty, focusing instead on its shattered aftermath. . .

Asymptote Blog Book Club

23.02.2024

Where the Change Comes From: Saskia Vogel on Translating Balsam Karam - Asymptote Blog

Here are the losses. Just listen this time. That directness is so wonderful.

Asymptote Blog Book Club

01.02.2024

Announcing Our January Book Club Selection: The Singularity by Balsam Karam - Asymptote Blog

Karam stretches the limits of conventional narrative writing. . . the result is a work of true formal experimentation without . . . artifice.

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Asymptote Blog Book Club - Books & Literature

Announcing Our September Book Club Selection: Bedbugs by Martina Vidaić - Asymptote Blog

Living Inside the Text: An Interview with Marilyn Booth on Translating Jan Dost’s Safe Corridor - Asymptote Blog

Announcing Our August Book Club Selection: Safe Corridor by Jan Dost - Asymptote Blog

The Poetics of Fatherhood: A Conversation with Robin Myers on Translating Andrés Neuman’s A Father Is Born - Asymptote Blog

Announcing Our July Book Club Selection: A Father is Born by Andrés Neuman - Asymptote Blog

To Bring the People with Us: An Interview with Paul Larkin on Translating Henrik Pontoppidan - Asymptote Blog

Announcing Our June Book Club Selection: The White Bear by Henrik Pontoppidan - Asymptote Blog

Unhappy Ending: An Interview with Franziska Gänsler and Imogen Taylor - Asymptote Blog

Announcing Our May Book Club Selection: Eternal Summer by Franziska Gänsler - Asymptote Blog

A Sacred Collaboration with Nature: An Interview with Natalia García Freire and Victor Meadowcroft - Asymptote Blog

Announcing Our April Book Club Selection: A Carnival of Atrocities by Natalia García Freire - Asymptote Blog

Baptism of Fire: An Interview with David Limon - Asymptote Blog

Announcing Our March Book Club Selection: On My Kingdom Is Dying by Evald Flisar - Asymptote Blog

Announcing Our March Book Club Selection: On My Kingdom Is Dying by Evald Filsar - Asymptote Blog

Ordered Chaos: Katy Derbyshire on Translating Zsuzsanna Gahse’s Mountainish - Asymptote Blog

Announcing Our February Book Club Selection: Mountainish by Zsuzsanna Gahse - Asymptote Blog

Play as Criticism, Curiosity, and Sense-Making: An Interview with Ena Selimović and Maša Kolanović - Asymptote Blog

Announcing Our January Book Club Selection: Underground Barbie by Maša Kolanović - Asymptote Blog

Voiding the Ego: Charlotte Mandell on Translating Paul Valéry - Asymptote Blog

Announcing Our December Book Club Selection: Monsieur Teste by Paul Valéry - Asymptote Blog

The It Girl in Her Own Words: Helen O’Horan on Translating Izumi Suzuki - Asymptote Blog

Announcing Our November Book Club Selection: Set My Heart on Fire by Izumi Suzuki - Asymptote Blog

By Way of Dreams: Annie McDermott on Translating Mario Levrero - Asymptote Blog

Announcing Our October Book Club Selection: The Thinking-About-Gladys Machine by Mario Levrero - Asymptote Blog

A Gazan Woman’s Voice: Michelle Hartman and Caline Nasrallah on translating Asmaa Alatawna’s A Long Walk from Gaza - Asymptote Blog

Announcing Our September Book Club Selection: A Long Walk From Gaza by Asmaa Alatawna - Asymptote Blog

Every Word Translucent: Julia Sanches on Translating Eva Baltasar - Asymptote Blog

Announcing Our August Book Club Selection: Mammoth by Eva Baltasar - Asymptote Blog

Nocturnal Tonguejests: Susan Bernofsky on translating Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel - Asymptote Blog

Announcing Our July Book Club Selection: Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel by Yoko Tawada - Asymptote Blog

The Languages and Literatures at Play in Hong Kong: Jennifer Feeley on Translating Lau Yee-Wa’s Tongueless - Asymptote Blog

Announcing our June Book Club selection: Tongueless by Lau Yee-Wa - Asymptote Blog

The Story as Experience: Oonagh Stransky and Marla Moffa on Eugenio Montale’s Butterfly of Dinard - Asymptote Blog

Announcing Our May Book Club Selection: Butterfly of Dinard by Eugenio Montale - Asymptote Blog

Poetic Justice: Will Firth on Translating Andrej Nikolaidis’ Anomaly - Asymptote Blog

Announcing our April Book Club Selection: Anomaly by Andrej Nikolaidis - Asymptote Blog

Scream of Freedom: Samar Yazbek and Leri Price on Where the Wind Calls Home - Asymptote Blog

Announcing Our February Book Club Selection: Where the Wind Calls Home by Samar Yazbek - Asymptote Blog

Where the Change Comes From: Saskia Vogel on Translating Balsam Karam - Asymptote Blog

Announcing Our January Book Club Selection: The Singularity by Balsam Karam - Asymptote Blog

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