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How an Icelandic Bird Led to the Discovery of Human-Caused Extinction

How an Icelandic Bird Led to the Discovery of Human-Caused Extinction

Gísli Pálsson on the Undersung Work of the Naturalists John Wolley and Alfred Newton

By Gísli Pálsson | February 7, 2024

Chocolate, Books, and More Books: Could America Even Handle Iceland’s Traditional Christmas “Book Flood”?

Chocolate, Books, and More Books: Could America Even Handle Iceland’s Traditional Christmas “Book Flood”?

Jess deCourcy Hinds Wonders If We’re Ready for a Jólabókaflóðið of Our Own

By Jess deCourcy Hinds | December 23, 2022

“Elves Live Here.” On Modern Icelandic Elflore and the Shades of Belief

“Elves Live Here.” On Modern Icelandic Elflore and the Shades of Belief

Nancy Marie Brown Considers the Stories Surrounding the Country’s “Hidden Folk”

By Nancy Marie Brown | October 24, 2022

Olaf Olafsson Knows When to Stop Writing: Before Depletion

Olaf Olafsson Knows When to Stop Writing: Before Depletion

The Author of Touch Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Literary Hub | August 16, 2022

Reclaiming Power Over One’s Own Story: Aminatta Forna on Abdulrazak Gurnah

Reclaiming Power Over One’s Own Story: Aminatta Forna on Abdulrazak Gurnah

Remarks From the PEN World Voices Festival opening night

By Aminatta Forna | May 17, 2022

What We Know About Women in the Viking Age Is Steeped in Cultural Bias

What We Know About Women in the Viking Age Is Steeped in Cultural Bias

Nancy Marie Brown on How Gender Impacts the Interpretation of History

By Nancy Marie Brown | September 2, 2021

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On the Rise of the Icelandic Saga as Written Literature

By Arthur Herman | August 9, 2021

Dispatches From a Microlanguage: An Icelandic Reading List

By Thora Hjorleifsdottir, translated by Larissa Kyzer | July 12, 2021

The Obsessive Scholar Who Rescued Iceland’s Ancient Literary Legacy

By Egill Bjarnason | May 11, 2021

How Björk Helped Iceland Weather the Global <br>Financial Crisis

How Björk Helped Iceland Weather the Global
Financial Crisis

Panos A. Panay and R. Michael Hendrix on the Connections Between Songwriting and Entrepreneurship

By Panos A. Panay & R. Michael Hendrix | April 12, 2021

Deep in an Icelandic Archive, the Earliest Roots of Nordic Mythology

Deep in an Icelandic Archive, the Earliest Roots of Nordic Mythology

Andri Snær Magnason Navigates a Sacred Text

By Andri Snær Magnason | March 30, 2021

Obeying the Undeniable Call of Iceland

Obeying the Undeniable Call of Iceland

Roni Horn on the Landscape That Won't Let Her Go

By Roni Horn | December 8, 2020

How Halldór Laxness Brings the Heroic to the Everyday

How Halldór Laxness Brings the Heroic to the Everyday

John Freeman on the Moral Power of Independent People

By John Freeman | October 6, 2020

Meet the Stone Collector of Iceland's Eastern Coast

Meet the Stone Collector of Iceland's Eastern Coast

A. Kendra Greene Gathers the History of a Life

By A. Kendra Greene | May 15, 2020

The Impostor Poets of Iceland Issue a Manifesto

The Impostor Poets of Iceland Issue a Manifesto

"Critics still don’t entirely know what to do with us."

By Literary Hub | December 4, 2019

Swimming Through Writer's Block at an Icelandic Public Pool

Swimming Through Writer's Block at an Icelandic Public Pool

Amanda Whiting on a Residency in the Town of Laugarvatn

By Amanda Whiting | November 1, 2019

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