In Selva Almada’s “Not a River,' three men return to their old fishing spot in a swirl of memory.

Join past contributor Annie McDermott as she looks back over the path that has shaped her translation of this International Booker Prize shortlisted novel.
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What did you discover when you stepped into Asymptote’s Midnight Garden issue?

Join the discussion as members of the Asymptote team share their highlights and reflections on the latest edition.
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'Light and shadow show something / but hide more, / never focused.'

Stunning poems of perception, translated with delicacy and finesse by George O’Connell and Diana Shi, that reveal both transcendent reality and a poet at the height of her powers: tinyurl.com/3kymnbbv

Liliana Colanzi’s “You Glow in the Dark” presents a range of places and characters across Latin America with wonder and terror.

Ponder the possibilities of Bolivian literature with this collection of “genre-bending stories” translated by Chris Andrews.
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Having published works in both Danish and Arabic, Duna Ghali occupies a unique position between these two literary worlds.

Join the discussion on how Danish and Arabic literatures “can inform and inspire one another.”
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Isabel Zapata’s “A Whale Is a Country” (trans. by past contributor Robin Myers) calls us to reexamine the relationship between humans and the natural world.

Discover the inspiration behind this zoological project and the research conducted to back it up.
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This week, our Editors-at-Large celebrate a beloved poet in Mexico, a new novel by a novelist and comics scholar in North Macedonia, and a recently republished chronicle of Greece’s years under dictatorship.

Read on to learn more!
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“I don’t believe in miracles, but somehow my books always have.”

Sit down with Salman Rushdie as he discusses the state of realism, free of speech, and his most recent book, “Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder.”
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'To write all day long without revising until you reach the end of a story produces an obscene quantity of books.'

Step into his study and spend a day with the prolific writer César Aira in an interview translated by past contributor, Jessica Sequeira.
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Humberto Ak’abal’s poetry lives in the silences around the work, in the emptiness of the page, like the hollow of a bell.

Translator Michael Bazzett on Humberto’s legacy, working between K’iche’, Spanish, and English, and the translation of silence:
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Olin and Shulman offer “evidence of how a single word—injustice—can grow and grow until it contains an entire country; how there is no scale for such grief […] but still it is felt and carried, every day”:
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Congratulations to past contributor Marcia Lynx Qualey for being awarded the 2024 Ottaway Award for the Promotion of International Literature!

Celebrate Qualey’s impactful work as an author, translator and the founder of ArabLit. wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2…

Basim Khandaqji’s “A Mask, the Colour of the Sky” has been awarded the 2024 International Prize for Arabic Fiction.

Get to know the work of this Palestinian author who has continued to write and study since he was imprisoned in 2004.
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What do people do when we’re not watching them?

A lake and a film set are both sites of trauma in today’s unforgettable #TranslationTuesday showcase—a sensitive coming-of-age story by Italian author Michele Orti Manara: tinyurl.com/yc89h3ut

“People in Kazakhstan are still unused to reading their writers.”

Catch up with Andrei Orlov as he discusses the business of books, the risks of political writing, and the progress Kazakhstani writers are making to redefine the country’s literary scene.
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'I don’t know how to tell you and prove that I love you!'

Via Kate Tsurkan 🇺🇦, Ukrainian author Khrystia Vengryniuk's 'The Flood'—a mordantly funny but also heartbreaking story of star-crossed lovers, each one waiting on the other to accept their love: tinyurl.com/d3e82wux

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

Riddled with allusions and defying expectations, his Anomaly (tr Will Firth) is a must-read:
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In Parsi theaters, male actors redefined feminine ideals through their portrayal of romantic heroines, female magicians, and other women.

Join Kathryn Hansen in examining the impact female impersonators have had on Parsi stages and beyond.
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What connects us to our fellow human being? Is it a shared landscape, shared heartbeats, or even something as simple as a recently vacated bus seat, still a little warm?

Join poet Kim Simonsen as he examines these questions in our Faroese Feature: tinyurl.com/2vyck2jk

What came first: secularization or capitalism?

Dip a toe into the philosophical and sociological this weekend to consider the rise of “fossil capitalism” with Mohamed Amer Meziane’s “The States of the Earth” translated by Jonathan Adjemian.
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