Iceland review - 2019, Síða 6

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Iceland Review
Editor
Gréta Sigríður Einarsdóttir
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Writers
Frank Sands
Jelena Ćirić
Jóhann Páll Ástvaldsson
Kjartan Þorbjörnsson
Mulan Rose
Gunnar Jónsson
KT Browne
Júlía Margrét Einarsdóttir
Ragnar Tómas Hallgrímsson

Translators
Larissa Kyzer
Gréta Sigríður Einarsdóttir
Photographers
Golli
Saga Sig
Hari
Steve Aisthorpe
Jón Geirssson
Sharon Kilgannan

Illustrator
Helga Páley Friðþjófsdóttir

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To me, the best thing about Iceland Review
is that it only comes out six times a year.
This is not a weak attempt at a joke, it’s the
truth. It’s also the most frustrating part
of publishing this magazine. Six issues a
year only allows you to talk about a fraction
of the issues, art, people, and places that
make up Icelandic community. Also, you’re
going to have to make sure what you’re
writing about at any given moment is still
relevant in two months’ time. What I’m say-
ing is, the magazine’s limited publication
dates force us, its creators, to take a step
back and look at the big picture.
Following the news is a different story,
and it’s hard work these days. It some-
times feels like it’s coming at you from
every direction, at every hour of the day.
It’s exhausting, and it’s also unnecessary.
I took a vacation this summer and didn’t
read the news at all. I recommend it: I’ve
never felt better. What’s more, once I got
back to work, I felt that all I had missed
were a few internet arguments.
I relish the fact that in order for the
magazine to stay relevant for weeks, we
need to dive deeper. We can’t just tell you
that the Polish community has grown
faster than any other group of immigrants
in Iceland, we tell you where they are. We
don’t just tell you that parliament has
passed a new law on gender autonomy, we
tell you why that’s important and what it’s
still missing. We take a deep dive into the
spirit of mountaineering and what it is that
keeps people going back, despite the dan-
ger that can, and has, claimed lives.
We also hear from innovative indie pop
group Hjaltalín, whose first record in seven
years is on the brink of release, and take
a peek into the pots and pans of Guðrún
Bjarnadóttir, who dyes Icelandic wool
according to traditional methods reach-
ing back centuries. You might have heard
about Iceland’s pool culture, but you prob-
ably haven’t heard about the unstoppable
group of people who have met at the pool
every weekday morning for the past several
decades to perform exercises based on a
100-year-old bodybuilding system.
Giving insight into a community means
taking a look beyond the headlines and get-
ting to know the people taking part in it.
FROM THE EDITOR
Gréta Sigríður Einarsdóttir
Editor, Iceland Review
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