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What the glacier won’t remember

Elhum Shakerifar reviews a savagely lyrical new documentary on the disappearance of Iceland's icescapes, based on the book by Andri Snær Magnason
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Women Without Men

Zanta Nkumane reviews Faridoun Farrokh's new translation of an iconic 1950s Iranian novella
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Charlie speaks!

Kin-Long Tong reviews a striking anime adaptation of the award-winning Japanese manga series by Shun Umezawa
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Sidetracked: Exile in Hollywood

Isabel Jacobs reviews Boris Dralyuks’s translation of Alexander Voloshin’s mock epic poem
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What am I, a deer?

Odhran O’Donoghue reviews the mind-expanding debut novel by a leading translator of Japanese fiction
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Annah, Infinite

Fairuza Hanun reviews Khairani Barokka's defiant interpretation of the long overlooked stories embedded in Gaugin's famous painting
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The seams are the story

Kin-Long Tong reviews the winner of the National Book Award for Translated Literature
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Le glossaire tardif

Maximilliane Leuschner delves into the latest iteration of the bible of the French language
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Glossary as archive

Zanta Nkumane reviews a brilliantly prolific archive of the slurs, slangs and creative euphemisms which make up the language of queerness across the Arab world
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