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Guest-edited by Roni Horn and Vicente Todoli, the latest issue of Matador magazine is themed around Iceland and the general topic of weather, both of which Horn has explored at length in her own work. It includes poems by Emily Dickinson about Vesuvius; Dieter Roth's Surtsey Island series, in which he gradually transforms an image of the Surtsey volcano into a steaming plate of food; Dr. Atl's paintings of the Paricutin volcano; a transcription of Glenn Gould's radio-documentary The Idea of North; various images of Mount Herdubreid, the Queen of the Mountains in Iceland; and Horn's series You Are the Weather and Weather Reports You, in which people describe the weather where they live. A CD of music by Ólöf Arnalds is also included.