Author: Nic Cavell
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Behind Björk’s Mutual Core
by Nic Cavell
Director Andrew Thomas Huang interviewedPast holographic women buzzing in electric mauves and garish greens, past Chinese artists scribbling grey scale…
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On The Frontier
by Nic Cavell
Even by generous estimates, there are less than 100 Jews in Iceland. The community’s infrastructure is sparse, their celebrations un-elaborate….
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Why Is Learning Icelandic So Damn Tough?
by Nic Cavell
You’re either angling for better work here, studying at the university, or have been wooed by the thick, thick skull…
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Do You Want To Know Who Mo Yan Is?
by Nic Cavell
The night before this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature was announced, I sat leafing through Haruki Murakami’s ‘The Wind-Up Bird…
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Toward An Icelandic Product Design
by Nic Cavell
“If I had to say,” Harpa Þórsdóttir says, “the identity of Icelandic product design is in the materials: fish bone,…