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  • Unraveled By Alda Sigmundsdóttir

    Unraveled By Alda Sigmundsdóttir

    ‘Unraveled,’ the debut novel of seasoned journalist, translator, author, and blogger Alda Sigmundsdóttir, opens on the brink of calamity—the sort of world-changing upheaval whose warning signs, in retrospect, seem so obvious, but which completely elude those involved until it’s much too late.…

  • “Nobody Gets Out Of Iceland Alive”

    “Nobody Gets Out Of Iceland Alive”

    Edward Weinman spent eight years as a freelance journalist in Iceland, or rather, he “endur[ed] many long, dark, cold, windy, grey winters” during which he “suffered only one nervous breakdown.” It is apparently lucky that he escaped the country when he did…