Warning: Don’t look at the above image if you don’t want to see a nipple. The new issue of Asymptote is out! I was on the sidelines for this issue because I was working overtime when it was being put together, but I did work with a writer on this interesting piece that compares Vikram Seth’s 1400-page English novel A Suitable Boy to its Hindi translation, and the possible influence Bollywood had on the translation. (Hint: all the sex and the gays are gone.)  The real highlight is the special feature on Taiwan which our founder/lead editor Yew Leong Lee spent four months assembling on the ground in that country. The issue’s cover and the illustrations throughout are from Legend Hou Chun-Ming, an artist one on the editorial termed the “Taiwanese Keith Haring.” Perhaps if Keith Haring were from hell he’d make things like what you can see in this slideshow of Chun-Ming’s art based on Chinese religious symbolism.  In addition to that, there’s plenty of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama… and it even fits in your pocket*!  *smartphone required

Warning: Don’t look at the above image if you don’t want to see a nipple.

The new issue of Asymptote is out! I was on the sidelines for this issue because I was working overtime when it was being put together, but I did work with a writer on this interesting piece that compares Vikram Seth’s 1400-page English novel A Suitable Boy to its Hindi translation, and the possible influence Bollywood had on the translation. (Hint: all the sex and the gays are gone.) 

The real highlight is the special feature on Taiwan which our founder/lead editor Yew Leong Lee spent four months assembling on the ground in that country. The issue’s cover and the illustrations throughout are from Legend Hou Chun-Ming, an artist one on the editorial termed the “Taiwanese Keith Haring.” Perhaps if Keith Haring were from hell he’d make things like what you can see in this slideshow of Chun-Ming’s art based on Chinese religious symbolism. 

In addition to that, there’s plenty of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama… and it even fits in your pocket*! 

*smartphone required

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