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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.

Asymptote Blog Book Club

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.

Asymptote Blog Book Club

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.

Asymptote Blog Book Club

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. . .

Asymptote Blog Book Club

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.

Asymptote Blog Book Club

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.

Asymptote Blog Book Club

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!

Asymptote Blog Book Club

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. . .

Asymptote Blog Book Club

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.

Asymptote Blog Book Club

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?

Asymptote Blog Book Club

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. . .

Asymptote Blog Book Club

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.

Asymptote Blog Book Club

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. . .

Asymptote Blog Book Club

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."

Asymptote Blog Book Club

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. . .

Asymptote Blog Book Club

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.

Asymptote Blog Book Club

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.

Asymptote Blog Book Club

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.

Asymptote Blog Book Club

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.

Asymptote Blog Book Club

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.

Asymptote Blog Book Club

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.

Asymptote Blog Book Club

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.

Asymptote Blog Book Club

27.04.2023

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

Fact and fiction are irrelevant.

Asymptote Blog Book Club

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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Asymptote Blog Book Club - Books & Literature

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

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

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

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

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