The Büchermarder (book marten). How German Librarians Finally Caught an Elusive Book Thief atlasobscura.com/articles/how-g
Alice Inggs’s Tweets
John Gray: 'What can we learn from cats? Don't live in an imagined future'
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Bookshops are a precious shelter from the storms of life
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'A deeply moving, folkloric odyssey that blends ancient magic with modern life, the ordinary and the miraculous, and most importantly our innately human hopes with our deepest fears.'
Max Porter's Lanny in tQ's best books of 2019
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"I could never
bring myself to ask
the artist and title
of the cassette tape
that my uncle was killed for
on the streets
of KwaMashu F
the murderer still walks
his footsteps block out
our moments of silence."
3 poems by in ✨
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I write some things at . Thought to share some today.
"The train simply arrived in Jozi without warning, as if to say, nothing here is as you know it, nothing here is as it was yesterday, and so what is the point?"
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"I could answer that a writer is someone who pays attention to the world."
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“Maybe I’m always reluctant to reread anything I wrote more than ten years ago because it would destroy my illusion of endless new beginnings. That’s the most American part of me: I feel that it’s always a new start.” —Susan Sontag theparisreview.org/interviews/150
"I am a POW in Cyrenaica. I am in good health and send my love and best wishes to family and friends." South African Sgt SG Wolhuter, my grandfather. Russian pilots scratched a message of thanks to him on a mirror after he helped them survive Stalag 4B in Germany. #PoppyStories
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"I linger, content to be with the ghosts of writers who have passed into this same perimeter. Camus leaning against the wall smoking cigarettes. Nabokov reflecting on the curve of the Nautilus." - Patti Smith
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Forks out: Our special 9th-anniversary issue's here!
We're serving up a salad with a 31-country flavor spectrum, Forrest Gander, Kurdish Poetry, and the results of our essay contest judged by J. M. Coetzee: asymptotejournal.com/jan-2020
Sustainable eater? <3: tinyurl.com/ycvtyjhk
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A review of Will McGrath's excellent story about four seasons in Lesotho. The Scrabble episode is genius. asymptotejournal.com/blog/2019/01/1
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NEW ISSUE! Please RT ’s Winter 2019 "Body Memory" feat. Maggie Nelson, Etel Adnan, and Steinn Steinarr, among new work from 35 countries! Find out who took home $3,000 in prizes in our annual translation contest, unveiled here: asymptotejournal.com
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Summer in South Africa is a dry white season. Time to read Mongane Wally Serote, André Brink and Julie Nxadi.
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It's #Christmas so our global team has put together a special column on festive reads!
From Albania, Spain, South Africa, and the USA, don't miss these choice recommendations for holiday writing from around the world. asymptotejournal.com/blog/2018/12/2
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Poetry as a reproduction of reality: Bibi Slippers tr sparkles on our #Fall2017 issue! #Afrikaans asymptotejournal.com/poetry/bibi-sl
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Had a great time talking with about her work in the new issue of The Arkansas International arkint.org/alice-inggs-qa
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Oh la la! Our #Fall2017 issue is lit up with writing from 31 countries + a focus on new French voices! Dive right in asymptotejournal.com
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Our fall issue, headed to a mailbox near you. Excerpts, interviews, & more: arkint.org/issue-three/
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South Africa, Austria & Brazil are on your literary itinerary today. Who said being an armchair traveler is no fun?
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IT'S HERE! The Summer Asymptote feat. 27 countries AND the winners of our translation contest! Read+RT! asymptotejournal.com/jul-2017
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"an experiment in how to translate foreignness to a reader" ~ on Yoko Tawada's "Memoirs of a Polar Bear": asymptotejournal.com/blog/2017/03/2
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Kaapse Afrikaans poetry that deals with "life on the other side of the margins" from Nathan Trantraal. asymptotejournal.com/poetry/nathan-
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Dispatches from World Literature (Zambia, South Africa and more) asymptotejournal.com/blog/#.V_oXxYl
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The uncanny underside of South Korea's bright lights: read an extract of ONE HUNDRED SHADOWS
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Pablo Picasso
The wings of waterbirds
hide the ocean.
~Shuzo Takiguchi
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Picasso, who died on this day in 1973, on intuition, how creativity works, and where good ideas come from brainpickings.org/2014/06/24/pic
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Harry Morant, to the firing squad: "Shoot straight, you bastards. Don't make a mess of it!"
Exploring the Demise of Skhothane, the Controversial Subculture Destroyed by the Media vice.com/read/skhothane via
i wish more words rhymed with darth vader
I guess not every poem needs to rhyme
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Help us keep the universal language of translation alive and pumping! Spread the word! igg.me/at/asymptote5
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"I believe in midnight and the hour of noon."
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Patti Smith on time, transformation, and how the radiance of love redeems the pain of loss buff.ly/1OCZeUQ
And we're live! Our October issue is all yours to read, share, and discover: asymptotejournal.com
#fall2015
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"When she looked thus, only God and Robert Browning knew what she was likely to say."
Our Summer 2015 issue is now live! So step into some amazing #parallelworlds right now: asymptotejournal.com
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Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797 – 1861) was one of the last great masters of the Japanese ukiyo-e style of woodblock prints.
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