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  • Rebecca Scott Lord, The Lord Of The Flings, Titillates With Her New Celebrity Erotica Anthology

    Rebecca Scott Lord, The Lord Of The Flings, Titillates With Her New Celebrity Erotica Anthology

    “You’re sitting here with the world-famous erotic novelist Rebecca Scott Lord,” proclaims the newly-published performance artist-cum-comedian-cum-romance-writer Rebecca Scott Lord the moment the microphone turns on to record her interview. Rebecca’s voice, velvety and smooth, promptly dissolves into brassy laughter the moment she…

  • UNCOVERED: Gerri Griswold’s Sordid Affair With Iceland!

    UNCOVERED: Gerri Griswold’s Sordid Affair With Iceland!

    If you happen to find yourself in Winchester, Connecticut at just the right time this month, you can observe some bona fide Icelandic horses grazing below the autumnal foliage as you chew on a strip of authentic harðfiskur while taking in the…

  • Case Study: Ísafjörður As Safe Haven For Persecuted Families

    Case Study: Ísafjörður As Safe Haven For Persecuted Families

    In 1996, the people of Ísafjarðarbær welcomed thirty refugees into their community with open arms. After a period of preparation, six families of mixed Serbian and Croatian marriages from former Yugoslavia arrived to take shelter in the relatively small (pop. 3,500) fishing…

  • Theatre: Alice’s Adventures In Nordic Wonderland

    Theatre: Alice’s Adventures In Nordic Wonderland

    We all know the story of Alice in Wonderland, whether it’s from watching the classic 1951 Disney animated film, or the objectively horrible 2010 remake, or just by reading the original source material, Lewis Carroll’s 1865 novel ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.’ It’s a…

  • Future Perfect

    Future Perfect

    On “The Story Island,” a fresh young crop of writers is busy carving out a space, making way, creating a culture all of their own, in defiance of what came before. Much like their predecessors, and their predecessors’ predecessors Icelanders’ rich literary…

  • Tölting Through The Lava Fields

    Tölting Through The Lava Fields

    “This is Stormur,” says the German staff member at Íshestar as she hands me the reins of my horse for the morning. She leaves us to get acquainted, and I pet Stormur’s soft nose, barely able to contain my glee. With impatience,…

  • Urbanization On Paper: A European Narrative

    Urbanization On Paper: A European Narrative

    Spark Design Space has a clean minimalist facade, a welcome place to rest your eyes next to the garishly painted corrugated tin front of its neighbour Kiki. The large glass windows show the dozens of posters tiled on the back walls of…

  • Old Masters, New Dude

    Old Masters, New Dude

    He’s young—only 36—but creates his work using the same methods that artists employed hundreds of years ago. His techniques are like those of the Old Masters (even though it’s impossible to say for certain exactly what methods they employed). He paints in…

  • Land Of The Sodium Sun

    Land Of The Sodium Sun

    The Icelandic winter is supposed to be dark and fierce with a view of the stars and sometimes the Aurora Borealis stretching overhead. It’s cold and windy, sure, but that’s not what bothers photographer Stuart Richardson. It’s the garish illumination of the…

  • Creativity For All

    Creativity For All

    Set in the glacial crevasse town of Seyðisfjörður, the music and arts festival LungA is a buzzing hive of creativity and pure, weird art. The weeklong festival is packed with different workshops held during the week and then topped off by a…

  • Icelandic Dating In An Instagram

    Icelandic Dating In An Instagram

    Early one morning after some drinks, Alex Brown Instagrammed a picture that inspired our cover this issue. A Minnesota native living in Reykjavík, Alex thought the scene strange enough to photograph, but still not altogether surprising. We chatted with Alex about the…