Tag: Icelandic authors

Here’s a first: I am writing about a book I didn’t finish. My fascination with Icelandic literature is well documented (I couldn’t even pick a...

Spolia (the literary magazine associated with The Bookslut) has released a chapbook of Sjón's poems called at the grave of the invisible man, translated by...

I took a Reykjavík city break last weekend without ever leaving Seattle, thanks to the Taste of Iceland event sponsored by Iceland Naturally and KEXP...

My latest dive into Icelandic literature is The Story of the Blue Planet by Andri Snær Magnason, translated by Julian Meldon D’Arcy. At first every...

You’re supposed to read the book first. The movie is never as good and it will limit your imagination when you do read the book....