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This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Edmund Gordon to review \'Klara and the Sun\', Kazuo Ishiguro\\u2019s surprisingly hopeful new novel about an Artificial Friend; the world\\u2019s first poem about Superman (perhaps) was written by Vladimir Nabokov in 1942 but not published until now, in this week\\u2019s TLS \\u2013 we discuss; and the medievalist Hetta Howes reviews two new translations of \'Beowulf\', taking us back to the rich and troubling ambiguities of the original.

Klara and the Sun, by Kazuo Ishiguro

\\u201cThe Man of To-morrow\\u2019s Lament\\u201d, a poem by Vladimir Nabokov, with commentary by Andrei Babikov

Beowulf: A new translation by Maria Dahvana Headley

Beowulf: In blank verse by Richard Hamer 

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