Asymptote is a Taiwan-based online literary magazine dedicated to translations of world literature, including poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and drama, mostly to English, but also to other languages.
[1] Reviews, interviews, blogs, visual arts and audiovisual materials are also found on the website; issues are released four times a year.
[2] Writers such as Mary Gaitskill, Jose Saramago, J. M. Coetzee, Junot Díaz, Yann Martel, and Mo Yan have appeared in the magazine.
"[5] In 2016, Asymptote celebrated its fifth anniversary with public events held in New York, London, Ottawa, and Chicago.
The story is summed up on the dust wrapper as "a hilarious spoof about an extremely popular writer and an avant garde literary critic."