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'In [Tezer] Özlü’s literary landscape, one travels without ever arriving.' Hilary Ilkay reviews Journey to the Edge of Life, translated by Maureen Freely—pondering life, death, memory, and the afterlives of Turkish women writers in translation: asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/06/2…

After 7 years of quiet longing and careful glances, one restless night, a rum cocktail and an impulsive question crack open a love that burns gently instead of consuming. This #TranslationTuesdat, lose yourself in French novelist Wendy Delorme’s words: tinyurl.com/bddj4euu

What if home was a rotting myth, and the nation a crumbling fable? Hélène Sanguinetti’s Alparegho, Like-nothing-else (tr. Ann Cefola) is a surreal, polyphonic epic that dismantles comfort, borders, and capitalist dreams—one lyric at a time: tinyurl.com/4p83fu2a

A sweltering combination of domestic turmoil, existential ennui—and looming disaster—Franziska Gänsler’s Eternal Summer presents fractures both geographic and internal. We spoke to both the author and translator of this month's Asymptote Book Club pick: asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/06/2…

India’s top literary prize has quietly disappeared, while free libraries are springing up in Delhi parks. In Bulgaria, a beloved literary matriarch is mourned. In Hong Kong, queerness is reshaped through words and translation. Read the latest dispatch: tinyurl.com/3ttxjyx6

“Translation, which is bilingualism in action, can bestow only dignity on languages; it knows nothing of shame.” A bilingual poet reflects on growing up with language shame in India and makes a powerful case for translation as dignity, not hierarchy. tinyurl.com/bdf8kpyd

Henrik Pontoppidan’s The White Bear is our Book Club Pick for the month of June! Let this review of the collection be your guide to one of the greatest writers and social critics of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Denmark: tinyurl.com/4z4yxxxw

"He pinpoints so accurately the kitsch euphemisms, the everyday language of evasion." Suzanne Jill Levine fondly recalls her encounters with the pioneering 20th century Latin American author Manuel Puig—through her translations, and in person: tinyurl.com/24sd9xph

After growing up in Communist Romania, feminist philosopher and political theorist Mihaela Miroiu found freedom in the birr of Brazilian Lambada. Embark on her compelling journey in our Summer 2019 issue: tinyurl.com/ydyxwcbw

For this week’s #TranslationTuesday, we present to you a powerful essay by Italian-Rwandan author Marilena Delli Umuhoza. Blending incisive cultural analysis with raw emotion, the essay makes clear why antiracist education must begin early: tinyurl.com/2s7reun3

"All things by long and immeasurable time are/first brought to light and then buried away/no man should marvel at what may come; still hostage/to the failing of oaths and the unbending will." Marvel at William Heath's interpretation of Sophocles' tragedy: tinyurl.com/3azzdxz2

In this newly translated fiction by Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz, we follow a flummoxed detective—also a lover of Sufi poetry!—on his hapless search for the truth. Jump in for a taste of existential noir fiction from the Arab world: tinyurl.com/yxzetkbr

'The stifling confines of gender in both past and present are treated in a way that defies easy essentialism.' Don't miss our review of Lucía Lijtmaer's Cautery—a radical and refreshing novel uniting two women across time and space: tinyurl.com/3b7jz3ay

Check out this excerpt from Katica Ḱulavkova's fictionalized “noctuary”—a dream diary inspired by Carl Jung's partial memoir—teasing the connection between the subconscious and the conscious in the human soul in our Winter 2020 edition: tinyurl.com/3j27veke

Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the immersive theater installation REFUGE was born—exploring the refugee experience in an interactive and multilingual way. Ian Ross Singleton speaks to REFUGE's creators about the urgency of their project: tinyurl.com/56ppdvzd

What's the latest in world literature? This week, our editors roam the world! Malaysia is celebrated at Beijing's book fair, Archipelago Books hosts in-progress translation readings in NYC, and Carlos Monsiváis inspires literary walks in Mexico City: tinyurl.com/2vxzhw24

"If Charlie Brown reads Freud, Mafalda reads Che Guevara." Meet the eponymous starlet of the best-selling Latin American comic of all time - a precocious, politically perceptive six-year old brunette in red: newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…

"...but in the city Foucault called home, how could I not be drawn to the power and potential of language?" In this riveting account, a sojourn in Paris turns into a laborious ordeal of relearning French: lithub.com/paris-made-my-…