In this episode we sit down with Þorbjörg Þorvaldsdóttir, a linguist and seasoned municipal politician, to discuss the ...

Yet local customs dictated that I take a slightly abbreviated summer vacation. This is written into my union contract, and our own publishers reminded me that despite our tricky schedule, we are ...

I want a pickup truck / that is towing a horse trailer / this is the life that I want.” Liking horses and hounds is a ...

Verslunarmannahelgi falls on the first weekend of August. It is the biggest travel weekend of the Icelandic year.

A half-dozen dates in Ireland and Amsterdam, internationally famous Alok Vaid-Menon chose Reykjavík and the opening night of ...

If I’m lucky, I wish I could live 300 years just to do all the albums I want to do.

Some of you may be familiar with that piece of fan fiction known as Hamlet, Will Shakespeare’s rewrite of the classic Amlóða ...

At 24:00 on July 31, 2026, the Iceland Coast Guard and Special Forces boarded the protest boat Bandero, taking control of the ...

Few phrases in the Icelandic tongue can be as breezily delivered as “þetta er gjöf en ekki gjald,” a phrase one could ...

The powerful and playful minimalism of Karin Sander makes artworks that exceed themselves, turning the museum into a ...

With respect for the bird and the residents, the strategy was to wait patiently for the sparrow to expose itself on the patio ...

Two women — one armed with a hi-def video camera — and a child visited the Secret Lagoon (Gamla Laugin in Icelandic) in March ...