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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. . .

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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. . .

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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.

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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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26.01.2024

The Intricacies of Human Experience: Natasha Lehrer on Translating On the Isle of Antioch - Asymptote Blog

There's a collective responsibility in engaging with these stories, reflecting on our own roles, and finding meaning in the midst of uncertainty.

Asymptote Blog Book Club

02.01.2024

You’re Invited: Join our 2024 Reading Challenge! - Asymptote Blog

Is reading adventurously one of your New Year’s resolutions? We can help with that!

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30.12.2023

Announcing our December Book Club Selection: On the Isle of Antioch by Amin Maalouf - Asymptote Blog

[Maalouf] offers us a human way to experience cataclysm without masking the confusion and desperation that takes hold. . .

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22.12.2023

Leaving and Staying: Liliana Corobca and Monica Cure on Kinderland - Asymptote Blog

I have the responsibility to go to the end with a good book.

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17.12.2023

The Best Gift This Holiday Season - Asymptote Blog

Who doesn’t love a year of adventurous reads—chosen from the latest in translation and delivered directly to their door?

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30.11.2023

Announcing Our November Book Club Selection: Kinderland by Liliana Corobca - Asymptote Blog

Kinderland contains its call for kindness within concentric circles of humor, irony, and tragedy. . .

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24.11.2023

Casting the Spell: Damion Searls on Translating Jon Fosse’s A Shining - Asymptote Blog

There is this very human, normal, everyday level, and at the same time there's this big, spiritual, complicated stuff.

Asymptote Blog Book Club

31.10.2023

Announcing Our October Book Club Title: A Shining by Jon Fosse - Asymptote Blog

Fosse understands that this experience he recounts is beyond rational belief; it resists all efforts to restrain it into language.

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21.10.2023

Between Seeing and Listening: Dias Novita Wuri on Birth Canal - Asymptote Blog

For me, it was important to talk about everyone's story and experience with the term “motherhood”.

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13.10.2023

Announcing Our September Book Club Selection: Birth Canal by Dias Novita Wuri - Asymptote Blog

To resist, the women in Birth Canal—as object of desire, porn actress, and sex worker—must stare back in their own fashion. . .

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21.09.2023

Inside the Mind That Falls Apart: Aron Aji and Selin Gökçesu on Lojman - Asymptote Blog

"Words by themselves don’t do much in literature; we encounter them inside syntax."

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31.08.2023

Announcing Our August Book Club Selection: Lojman by Ebru Ojen - Asymptote Blog

Ojen writes along the pulse, and everything she describes is powered by the thrashing motions of something holding on to life.

Asymptote Blog Book Club

24.08.2023

Translating Multiple Dimensions: Sarah Timmer Harvey on Jente Posthuma’s What I’d Rather Not Think About - Asymptote Blog

Life isn’t one-dimensional; it’s a blend of emotions, absurdity, and different tones. . .

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27.07.2023

Announcing Our July Book Club Selection: What I’d Rather Not Think About by Jente Posthuma - Asymptote Blog

Posthuma develops an affecting novel about grief by embracing its full complexity.

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27.07.2023

A Weird Alchemy of Taste and Determination: Speaking with Taylor Bradley of Honford Star - Asymptote Blog

That’s what is cool about Specters—it tries to explore how government censorship affects the world of art.

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19.07.2023

States of Alienation: Dana Shem-Ur and Yardenne Greenspan on Where I Am - Asymptote Blog

That’s a major part of translation: to make sure that it's still the original book.

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29.06.2023

Announcing Our June Book Club Selection: Where I Am by Dana Shem-Ur - Asymptote Blog

Reut senses more and more how even common tongues can quickly become incommensurable walls, especially within the confines of her family.

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22.06.2023

A Pointed Atemporality: Mui Poopoksakul on Translating Saneh Sangsuk’s Venom - Asymptote Blog

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.

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06.06.2023

Announcing Our May Book Club Selection: Venom by Saneh Sangsuk - Asymptote Blog

For every moment of beauty, there is the shadow of cruelty hanging in the background.

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31.05.2023

Announcing Our June Book Club Selection: Venom by Saneh Sangsuk - Asymptote Blog

For every moment of beauty, there is the shadow of cruelty hanging in the background.

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27.04.2023

Announcing Our April Book Club Selection: The Specters of Algeria by Hwang Yeo Jung - Asymptote Blog

Fact and fiction are irrelevant.

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19.04.2023

Great Material for a Novel: Lucy Jones on Translating Brigette Reimann - Asymptote Blog

The translation is always another chance to improve a piece of writing stylistically, ‎to make it really sing.

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30.03.2023

Announcing Our March Book Club Selection: Siblings by Brigitte Reimann - Asymptote Blog

Siblings transports us to post-war Berlin, when the lines were still being drawn around the nascent socialist dream.

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23.03.2023

Translating at the Limits of Language: Lisa Dillman on Yuri Herrera - Asymptote Blog

[Herrera's] writing is for everyone on an individual level, regardless of education, regardless of language, regardless of national histories.

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27.02.2023

Announcing Our February Book Club Selection: Ten Planets by Yuri Herrera - Asymptote Blog

Science fiction is Herrera’s springboard for a ludicrously inventive imagination.

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23.02.2023

Writing Against Tradition: A Conversation with Stênio Gardel and Bruna Dantas Lobato - Asymptote Blog

I’d like to think that when people read my book and looked at that environment, they could perhaps question their own privileges and prejudices.

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30.01.2023

Announcing Our January Book Club Selection: The Words That Remain by Stênio Gardel - Asymptote Blog

The necessity of casting off shame and regret, of rejecting violence instead of our identities, are crucial messages in this book.

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26.01.2023

My Literature, My Voice: A Conversation with Max Lobe and Ros Schwartz - Asymptote Blog

I’m always travelling, travelling, travelling, to preach the gospel of literature, of my literature, of my voice.

Asymptote Blog Book Club

11.01.2023

Are you game for our New Year reading challenge? - Asymptote Blog

Discover the latest and greatest of world literature, curated by our award-winning team!

Asymptote Blog Book Club

11.01.2023

Announcing Our December Book Club Title: Does Snow Turn a Person White Inside? by Max Lobe - Asymptote Blog

To open up poverty is to open up migration is to open up blackness is to open up the love between two men.

Asymptote Blog Book Club

22.12.2022

Everything Is in the Atmosphere: David Boyd on Translating Hiroko Oyamada - Asymptote Blog

For me, the best way to approach idioms is to live with them for a really long time.

Asymptote Blog Book Club

01.12.2022

Announcing Our November Book Club Title: Weasels in the Attic by Hiroko Oyamada - Asymptote Blog

. . . the tension of the story's thread does not snap; it remains taut and coiled, hinting but never giving.

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29.11.2022

“Vulnerable” Languages: An Interview with Jim Dingley and Petra Reid - Asymptote Blog

The journey of working on this text has led me to look at the whole field of literary translation much more widely than I ever had before.

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29.11.2022

Announcing Our August Book Club Selection: The Left Parenthesis by Muriel Villanueva - Asymptote Blog

As the novella progresses, there is a blurring between author and protagonist, between the author’s writing and the writing within the writing.

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29.11.2022

In Good Company: Megan Berkobien and María Cristina Hall on Translating The Left Parenthesis - Asymptote Blog

[B]eing able to share genius in whatever way or form is the most beautiful thing there is.

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Asymptote Blog Book Club - Books & Literature

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

The Intricacies of Human Experience: Natasha Lehrer on Translating On the Isle of Antioch - Asymptote Blog

You’re Invited: Join our 2024 Reading Challenge! - Asymptote Blog

Announcing our December Book Club Selection: On the Isle of Antioch by Amin Maalouf - Asymptote Blog

Leaving and Staying: Liliana Corobca and Monica Cure on Kinderland - Asymptote Blog

The Best Gift This Holiday Season - Asymptote Blog

Announcing Our November Book Club Selection: Kinderland by Liliana Corobca - Asymptote Blog

Casting the Spell: Damion Searls on Translating Jon Fosse’s A Shining - Asymptote Blog

Announcing Our October Book Club Title: A Shining by Jon Fosse - Asymptote Blog

Between Seeing and Listening: Dias Novita Wuri on Birth Canal - Asymptote Blog

Announcing Our September Book Club Selection: Birth Canal by Dias Novita Wuri - Asymptote Blog

Inside the Mind That Falls Apart: Aron Aji and Selin Gökçesu on Lojman - Asymptote Blog

Announcing Our August Book Club Selection: Lojman by Ebru Ojen - Asymptote Blog

Translating Multiple Dimensions: Sarah Timmer Harvey on Jente Posthuma’s What I’d Rather Not Think About - Asymptote Blog

Announcing Our July Book Club Selection: What I’d Rather Not Think About by Jente Posthuma - Asymptote Blog

A Weird Alchemy of Taste and Determination: Speaking with Taylor Bradley of Honford Star - Asymptote Blog

States of Alienation: Dana Shem-Ur and Yardenne Greenspan on Where I Am - Asymptote Blog

Announcing Our June Book Club Selection: Where I Am by Dana Shem-Ur - Asymptote Blog

A Pointed Atemporality: Mui Poopoksakul on Translating Saneh Sangsuk’s Venom - Asymptote Blog

Announcing Our May Book Club Selection: Venom by Saneh Sangsuk - Asymptote Blog

Announcing Our June Book Club Selection: Venom by Saneh Sangsuk - Asymptote Blog

Announcing Our April Book Club Selection: The Specters of Algeria by Hwang Yeo Jung - Asymptote Blog

Great Material for a Novel: Lucy Jones on Translating Brigette Reimann - Asymptote Blog

Announcing Our March Book Club Selection: Siblings by Brigitte Reimann - Asymptote Blog

Translating at the Limits of Language: Lisa Dillman on Yuri Herrera - Asymptote Blog

Announcing Our February Book Club Selection: Ten Planets by Yuri Herrera - Asymptote Blog

Writing Against Tradition: A Conversation with Stênio Gardel and Bruna Dantas Lobato - Asymptote Blog

Announcing Our January Book Club Selection: The Words That Remain by Stênio Gardel - Asymptote Blog

My Literature, My Voice: A Conversation with Max Lobe and Ros Schwartz - Asymptote Blog

Are you game for our New Year reading challenge? - Asymptote Blog

Announcing Our December Book Club Title: Does Snow Turn a Person White Inside? by Max Lobe - Asymptote Blog

Everything Is in the Atmosphere: David Boyd on Translating Hiroko Oyamada - Asymptote Blog

Announcing Our November Book Club Title: Weasels in the Attic by Hiroko Oyamada - Asymptote Blog

“Vulnerable” Languages: An Interview with Jim Dingley and Petra Reid - Asymptote Blog

Announcing Our August Book Club Selection: The Left Parenthesis by Muriel Villanueva - Asymptote Blog

In Good Company: Megan Berkobien and María Cristina Hall on Translating The Left Parenthesis - Asymptote Blog

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