The April issue of ASYMPTOTE, just out, features new translations of José Saramago, Ingrid Winterbach, Torgny Lindgren and Imre Kertész, a dispatch from post-quake Japan, a memoir from Cuba, poems by Fernando Pessoa, Cesar Vallejo and Max Lichtenstein, drama by Han Lao Da, new original English language work by Bharati Mukherjee, Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé and Justin Taylor, essays on Jean-Christophe Valtat and Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, the photos of Yevgeniy Fiks offering an alternate history of Moscow, a Q&A with Taiwanese video artist Chia-En Jao, an interview with noted translation scholar Susan Bassnett and more. Also in ASYMPTOTE are critical essays, and reviews of the latest books. All of it is available free online at our aesthetically exciting website, where we post not only the translated texts, but also, when available, the works in their original languages, audio recordings of those originals, and accompanying artwork specially curated for each issue.
Asymptote Issue Two is available now, by clicking here: http://asymptotejournal.com