Drawing on the glosa—a Renaissance form that uses 4 lines of another poem as a starting point—Dani Spinosa’s typewriter poetry transforms language into “the commons, a place where everyone has access.” Don't miss the immersive slideshow of her work: tinyurl.com/y6bzdy68

What happens when the bodily economy of writing meets the market economy of publishing? These brilliant stories by cult author Hervé Guibert expose the "antagonistic economies of textual production": DL tinyurl.com/jt339nvp

“I am not writing these notes for anyone, I am writing them for the plants themselves […] so that they can take advantage of the fact I know how to write.” Lose yourself in the wondrous pages of Portuguese writer Maria Gabriela Llansol’s diaries: tinyurl.com/3pha8bcu

This #TranslationTuesday, we bring you an intricate puzzle by master mystery-writer Edogawa Ranpo. Immerse yourself in this elaborate psychodrama of code-cracking, thwarted courtship, and the correspondence culture of early twentieth-century Japan: tinyurl.com/y4ez3rhf

In the following essay, Kena Chavva reflects on her experience prompting high school students to consider their own interactions with language and translation, and the ways both shape their lives and the world around them: tinyurl.com/22rpd49b

Celebrated Somali-Dutch poet Alara Adilow writes about queerness and spirituality, but never shies from sensuality. Thanks to translator Shimanto Robin Reza, her poems appear for the first time in English: tinyurl.com/4jjymfeu

Kevin Claiborne’s multimedia work sources from personal archives, landscape, and anthropological studies to coalesce a vision of Black American history into its contemporary variations, spanning the realms of collective and private histories. Learn more: tinyurl.com/tr54587f

Centering the peripheral is fundamental to the project of world literature—and now more than ever, when anti-migrant violence is on the rise. For our next issue, send us your texts—written or translated into English—centering the outsider by Sept 15: asymptotejournal.com/submit

In Mushtaq Yousufi’s nonfiction, a hypochondriac is invited on a no-expenses-paid two-month vacation to a hill station. Hilarity ensues. Translated by Guggenheim Fellow and frequent contributor Matt Reeck, Urdu humor at its finest: tinyurl.com/5xza6te6

The longlists for the 2024 National Translation Awards in Poetry and Prose are here! With works in 17 languages from 21 presses, this year’s longlists highlight the beauty of translation across cultures and time. Congrats to all! tinyurl.com/4mrcm6wd

Want to read the latest in world lit news? Our editors send dispatches from Mexico, where a beloved centenarian writer opens a book fair with 'unparallelled lucidity', and the Philippines, celebrating women writers in 'minority' languages: tinyurl.com/mvpk8ysk

For your weekend listening, why not tune into the Asymptote Podcast? Exiled Syrian author Jamal Saeed discusses his devastating story in our Summer issue, penned amidst the ongoing genocide in Gaza, which speaks to the grief and loss of displacement: tinyurl.com/2p878y9

"A fucking asteroid is coming!" In a world turned upside down by crisis, relationships fracture and fears escalate in Honduran playwright Luis Emilio Cerna Mazier’s evocative drama tr. Larisa Muñoz Mejía: tinyurl.com/2fbe7npc

“Today, you’ll find your way back to the earth.” On the 49th day of his death, the narrator of Mongolian author Bayasgalan Batsuuri’s evocative story commemorates her lover’s reincarnation by visiting a monastery—only to be overwhelmed by tender memories: tinyurl.com/4sz9wtu2

“A stranger wherever I may be,” the stateless and scapegoated Syrian poet Fadi Azzam reclaims his self with a barrage of feverish “I am’s.” Situating him in English is Ghada Alatrash: tinyurl.com/3cxv52w7

We glimpse a myriad of lives in the stories of Omani author Jokha Alharthi—from the past to the present, the village to the city, sisterhood to motherhood, and love to loss. Ibrahim Fawzy | إبراهيم فوزي reviews this polyphonic work in Marilyn Booth's translation: tinyurl.com/rpum659u

Not all translators approach their work with the same lofty aim as César Jumpa Sánchez: To “project [César Vallejo’s breakthrough collection, Trilce] to a network of planetary outreach.” We are honored to be the platform for these bravura translations: tinyurl.com/5d29zaxe

Congratulations to those longlisted for the 2024 National Book Foundation Award for Translated Lit! Wonderful to see past contributors Saskia Vogel, Sophie Hughes, Annie McDermott, Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Roland Glasser 🟣, Heather Cleary, and Lin King 金翎 recognised: newyorker.com/books/page-tur…

This #TranslationTuesday, we present three meditations from Brazil on the fluid qualities of the words that describe and “name” us. Dive into this evocative and poetic treatment of the contradictions of grammar: tinyurl.com/eawc94e5

We all love our books, but at what point does that love become reductive—or even dangerous? Francesca Mancino takes a close look at three works by the Italian writer Michele Mari, tracing narratives in their manifestations of literary greed: tinyurl.com/27m39y56