Asymptote is a global journal dedicated to literary translation, created by a team of writers and translators from over 25 different countries. In our new podcast, we explore the most fascinating, eclectic and unsung stories in international literature. Each episode travels far and wide to bring you interviews, readings and mini-documentaries from all over the literary world.

Asymptote Podcast
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Asymptote is a global journal dedicated to literary translation, created by a team of writers and translators from over 25 different countries. In our new podcast, we explore the most fascinating, eclectic and unsung stories in international literature. Each episode travels far and wide to bring you interviews, readings and mini-documentaries from all over the literary world.
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Recent Episodes

February 20, 2025
Asymptote Podcast: In Conversation with Samuel Bollier
Ever think of running away from mundane existence to join the circus? Imagine if, one day, after watching the circus, the circus director comes over to recruit you for an unusual role in the spectacle and pageantry you have just witnessed. This is what happens in <a href="https://www.asymptotejournal.com/fiction/at-the-circus-jurj-salem/" target="_blank">Jurj Salem’s “</a><a href="https://www.asymptotejournal.com/fiction/at-the-circus-jurj-salem/" target="_blank">At the Circus”</a> from our <a href="https://www.asymptotejournal.com/jan-2025" target="_blank">Winter 2025 issue</a>, a witty short story filled with dry humor that gently questions what we hold to be reality. Join Podcast Editor Vincent Hostak for a fascinating conversation with its translator Samuel Bollier for an entrypoint into Salem’s surreal fictional universe, as well as the broader challenges of translating Arabic fiction into English.

August 29, 2024
Asymptote Podcast: In Conversation with Jamal Saeed
Join us today for a heartfelt conversation with exiled Syrian author Jamal Saeed, author of the 2022 autobiography My Road from Damascus (ECW Press, Toronto). Podcast Editor Vincent Hostak recently sat down with Saeed, now based in Canada, to discuss his devastating <a href="https://www.asymptotejournal.com/fiction/my-grandmother-fatimas-cough-jamal-saeed/">short story</a>, a highlight of our recent <a href="https://www.asymptotejournal.com/jul-2024">Summer 2024 edition</a>. Written amidst the ongoing genocide in Gaza and translated into English by longtime collaborator Catherine Cobham, <a href="https://www.asymptotejournal.com/fiction/my-grandmother-fatimas-cough-jamal-saeed/">My Mother Fatima’s Cough</a> plumbs the depth of grief and loss that follow generations of a family displaced multiple times over. The discussion is accompanied by a reading of an excerpt in English. Listen to the podcast episode now.

July 5, 2024
Asymptote Podcast: In Conversation with Dan Beachy-Quick
To American poet and translator Dan Beachy-Quick, translations of Greek poets from the lyric and philosophical traditions are an opportunity to “use the eye to break apart the mind and remind us that we have a mouth to sing another’s song.” In this new Asymptote podcast episode, Beachy-Quick and Podcast Editor Vincent Hostak discuss the ongoing resonance of these songs in […]
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