The Reykjavík Grapevine


Sverrir Norland

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  • Last Words: The Marvelous And The Mundane

    Last Words: The Marvelous And The Mundane

    One recent morning, as I was walking my daughter to daycare, I had, as you do, a fierce philosophical debate with myself about why I don’t listen to music anymore. (In two different voices, of course.) While my daughter was trying to…

  • 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…