New Asymptote

       The April issue of Asymptote is now out -- and worth your while, top to bottom. Nevertheless, a few of the highlights:

• The Artist on her Trapeze: Barbara Wright's 99 Variations on a Theme by Raymond Queneau by David Bellos, on her translation of Raymond Queneau's classic Exercises in Style -- a piece apparently taken from Dalkey Archive Press' Barbara Wright: Translation as Art (see their publicity page, or get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk), a book I regretably haven't seen yet (but now have on reserve at the library)
  
  
• The Space between Languages by Herta Müller
  
  
• Adrian West on Marianne Fritz
  
  
• Brief Notes on Science by Gonçalo M. Tavares

       But don't overlook the rest, either !