Category: Books

On my first trip to Iceland, I naively bragged that I had read all the sagas. My listener was too polite to do more than...

In true 2016 fashion, my year in books was pretty bad. In 2015, I set a goal of reading 50 books, hit it in September,...

I usually post on Sundays, and this Sunday is Christmas. A holiday themed post is required. But to be honest, I’m not really feeling the...

I once stood among a group of writers at a talk presented by then-Icelandic President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson. He said that we would notice Iceland had...

This is the view from the hill above the house that is built on the sight of the farm where Egil Skallagrimsson lived a thousand...