All the world’s literature is a #palimpsest—layered with voices that history writes over. Our magnificent Fall 2025 issue, OUT NOW, puts many of these voices in conversation: Nay Thit, Jen Calleja, and Johanna Drucker in our Special Feature on #attention: https://t.co/qil2RFD1ig

How to break Trump's hold on the masses? According to Johanna Drucker, who heads off our Special Feature on #attention in the new Fall Asymptote, we need to acknowledge that "attention in aggregate is a devouring force that overwhelms individual agency." https://t.co/o8rM9nfnO6

Priya Sarukkai Chabria and Shobhana Kumar experiment as they translate—in turn, in contradiction, and in collaboration—the verses of the early Tamil mystic Manikkavasagar. Immerse yourself in the profound power and linguistic beauty of his songs: https://t.co/DSLIdcBwON

This week, our editors bring us latest in literary news. From the efforts of Filipino literati for Palestine, to Bulgaria’s reckoning with the swiftly changing modern world and insightful essays and reviews on Hong Kong literature, read on for more! https://t.co/Gj5SxXS90w

In Estabraq Ahmed’s retelling of Little Red Riding Hood, the forest of the tale becomes an urban wilderness and the familiar roles of predator and protector are reversed. Don’t miss this surreal and metafictional adaptation in the Fall Asymptote: https://t.co/8aWiLSVmWh

“I put my ear to the ground and heard a language older than grief.” From the Fall issue, these poems from Katerina Iliopoulou’s Notes on the Book of Soil (tr. Jackson Watson) move gently through loss, renewal, and the quiet persistence of life beneath us: https://t.co/epA0Y3ST9v

A highlight of our special feature on #attention, Andrea Gentile’s probing essay (tr. Scott Belluz) asks us to pause and literally "behold the apparition"—i.e. savor the moments when the fabric of reality shifts, and our world is transformed. Enter here: https://t.co/pIDAeXVKCy

Beneath the Balkans’ quiet surfaces, Uroš Bojanović finds the grotesque, the tender, and the tragically absurd. In our latest issue, his poems stare down death, love, and the slow rot of daily life: https://t.co/n8kpmw0hKo

Join Marat Uali as he traces a century of efforts to unify #Turkic languages, from reforms to a renewed push for a common alphabet. This is a timely call to action on behalf of #Kazakhstan's precarious linguistic identity: https://t.co/p8hZ93rLB3

‘It was as though the tale was taking place in the air that separated me from the eyes of the audience. The story appeared and I began to fade away.’ Andrés Montero blends circus life and 1001 Nights to explore how storytelling can change a life: https://t.co/PDW2J8KNw9

Once blacklisted and accused of treason, Noh Cheonmyeong risked being forgotten—but her haunting voice endured, making her one of Korea’s most compelling writers. In our Fall 2025 issue, her two poems reveal life’s quiet undoing: https://t.co/9lyR0QKsUj

“All those words like coarse sand from my mother’s mouth.” In Dried Seaweed at Midnight, Nakanishi Morina explores the fragile boundaries between the human body and emotion, mother and daughter, tracing how memories imprint themselves on the body. https://t.co/ThkB2EqCxb

In Taşkale Prison, the fog falls like judgment itself—thick, blinding, immovable. Inside, men measure their lives in cigarettes, stories, and uncounted days. Kemal Varol’s haunting tale of guilt, memory, and the strange mercy of storytelling: https://t.co/ygeU6qws3C

Originally composed on papyri—literal #palimpsests!— Herodas’ Mimiambs trace life’s fleeting pleasures across family, society, and the divine. Dive into this sparkling update of the third-century BCE Greek poet in past contributor William Heath's English: https://t.co/oZyxiNnGxm

What does Lagaan teach about the value of #attention? A lot! says Farah Ahamed in this essay focusing on the moment where villagers stand in wait for rain—a "scene [that] captures the mystery of what it means to be human—yearning, even while yielding." https://t.co/24nmy1llbZ

Faced with the horrors of Nazi book burnings, Fabio Stassi asks—how can literature prevent such a crisis? A masterwork spanning individual and society, don't miss this "act of therapy for the writer and a call to engagement for the reader": https://t.co/CHe7Ajc2er

What if the loneliest injury is the one that doesn't show? In the latest Asymptote, discover Finnish author Timo Teräsahjo's devastating story of a brain injury survivor who finds hope inside a blue storage container bound for Africa: https://t.co/6WyYwfS8V3

"land drenched in their blood the sap of Palestine" Past contributor Olivia Elias returns to our pages with an urgent "cry of indignation" (tr. Jérémy Victor Robert) against what she calls "the hallucinated project of a new Hiroshima" in Gaza: https://t.co/5ZlgUE3tsA

Spectacle meets satire in the second of our two translations of Ecuadorian author Pablo Palacio—this time by José Darío Martínez Milantchi—set in a prison. Accept their invitation to "imagine the sight you will be if the cannibal eats your nose for lunch": https://t.co/nVbU7V01po

In our latest issue, French poet Gabrielle Althen turns her attention to the saxifrage—a peculiar plant that embodies paradox and the immense power of small things. Immerse yourself in these exquisite “word-portraits” (tr. Oscar Duffield): https://t.co/e1Tsp6fgUM

“What must I have if poetry is to be an inner practice like religion? —I must have beautiful things.” Join this inspiring conversation between Naoko Fujimoto and Danielle Pieratti on hybrid art, graphic poetry, and writing that blurs boundaries: https://t.co/5xgSbqIdaz