Issue 16 | April 2018

A Special Feature, New Nordic Voices

• Curated by Katrine Øgaard Jensen and Kayla Maiuri

Fiction

• Excerpt from Elín, Misc. by Kristín Eiríksdóttir, translated from the Icelandic by Larissa Kyzer

• Excerpt from T. U. V. by Zeshan Shakar, translated from the Norwegian by David M. Smith

• Excerpt from Oneiron by Laura Lindstedt, translated from the Finnish by Owen Witesman

• Excerpt from 27: or, Death Makes the Artist by Alexandra Salmela, translated from the Finnish by Niina Pollari

• Excerpt from The Paris Syndrome by Heidi Furre, translated from the Norwegian by Julia Johanne Tolo

• “Starlings” by Solrún Michelsen, translated from the Faroese by Kerri Pierce

Poetry

• Three Poems by Fríða Ísberg, translated from the Icelandic by Megan Matich

• Three Poems by Soffía Bjarnadóttir, translated from the Icelandic by Megan Matich

• Four Poems by Elías Knörr, translated from the Icelandic Megan Matich

• Three Poems by Asta Olivia Nordenhof, translated from the Danish by Susanna Nied

• Three Poems by Shadi Angelina Bazeghi, translated from the Danish by Katrine Øgaard Jensen

• “She Is Angry” by Maja Lee Langvad, translated from the Danish by Katrine Øgaard Jensen

• “Red” by Helena Österlund,  translated from the Swedish by Paul Cunningham

• “Ode to Sadness” by Ghayath Almadhoun, translated from the Swedish by Catherine Cobham

• “Predatory Instinct” by Helena Boberg, translated from the Swedish by Johannes Goransson

Nonfiction

• “The Nationsoul of My Dear Jon” by Birkir Blær, translated from the Icelandic by Meg Matich

Visual Art

• “Personal Space,” an art series curated by Kayla Maiuri

Research

• “Weimar 1525 to Weimar 1919: From Reformation to Democracy” by Michael Haspel

• “Soviet Communists on the Factory Floor: 1926–1941” by Yiannis Kokosalakis

• “Delegitimizing Authority: The First of October and the History of Police Violence in Catalonia” by Foster Chamberlin

Commentary

• “Imagining Russian Regions: Subnational Identity and Civil Society in Nineteenth-Century Russia” by Susan Smith-Peter

Reviews

• Belladonna, reviewed by Lucy Popescu

• Engines of Empire: Steamships and the Victorian Imagination, reviewed by Crosbie Smith

• Cultural Feelings Mood, Mediation and Cultural Politics, reviewed by Danielle Hanley

• Confessional Cinema: Religion, Film, and Modernity in Spain’s Development Years, 1960–1975, reviewed by Jorge Mari

• Queenship in Medieval France, 1300-1500, reviewed by Zita Rohr

• Iceland’s Financial Crisis: The Politics of Blame, Protest, and Reconstruction, reviewed by Alyssa Maraj Grahame

Interviews

• “The Importance of Oceanic Editors: An Interview with Angela Rawlings” by Ida Bencke

Editor’s Pick

• Long Night at the Vepsian Museum: The Forest Folk of Northern Russia and the Struggle for Cultural Survival by Veronica Davidov

• Refugees, Civil Society and the State European Experiences and Global Challenges by Ludger Pries

• European Union Governance and Policy Making: A Canadian Perspective, edited by Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly, Achim Hurrelmann, and Amy Verdun

• Postwar Europe and the Eurovision Song Contest by Dean Vuletic

• The Library: A Catalogue of Wonders by Stuart Kells