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  • Alexander Dan On The Untapped Resource of Icelandic Fantasy

    Alexander Dan On The Untapped Resource of Icelandic Fantasy

    In 2014, when Alexander Dan first started looking for a publisher for the sci-fi/fantasy novel that he’d worked on for the past four years, the response was somewhat disheartening. “I couldn’t figure out why the manuscript kept getting rejected,” he reminisces. “I…

  • WHERE WERE WE? WHERE ARE WE? WHERE ARE WE HEADED?

    WHERE WERE WE? WHERE ARE WE? WHERE ARE WE HEADED?

    To mark the beginning of a new year, we posed two questions to dozens of Icelanders, old and new. Representatives of every single political party, ministers, mayors and machinists alike (as per usual, the governing parties mostly ignored our queries). We asked…

  • Growth

    Growth

    There is something growing on my back. I can’t see it, but I know it’s there. At first I thought it was a zit, oozing viscous fluid, troubling my back as I went to sleep. As it grew it felt more like…