Author: - The Reykjavik Grapevine

Behind Björk’s Mutual Core

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Director Andrew Thomas Huang interviewedPast holographic women buzzing in electric mauves and garish greens, past Chinese artists scribbling grey scale…

On The Frontier

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Even by generous estimates, there are less than 100 Jews in Iceland. The community’s infrastructure is sparse, their celebrations un-elaborate….

Why Is Learning Icelandic So Damn Tough?

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You’re either angling for better work here, studying at the university, or have been wooed by the thick, thick skull…

Do You Want To Know Who Mo Yan Is?

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The night before this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature was announced, I sat leafing through Haruki Murakami’s ‘The Wind-Up Bird…

Toward An Icelandic Product Design

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“If I had to say,” Harpa Þórsdóttir says, “the identity of Icelandic product design is in the materials: fish bone,…