“I was diagnosed with smoldering myeloma two years ago, and that prompted me to get involved in advocacy and research related to the disease. This project in Iceland is a result of that,” says Eric Blackburn, an American veteran who served in ...

Foreign Minister Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir believes that Iceland’s membership in the European Union would have no impact on the 1951 bilateral defense agreement between Iceland and the United States.

Icelandair carried 464,000 passengers in May, a 4% increase compared with the same month last year. Of those passengers, 30% were traveling to Iceland, 19% from Iceland, 45% were connecting passengers, and 5% traveled on domestic routes.

The Icelandic Coast Guard, in close coordination with the Ministry for Foreign Affairs’ Defence Office and NATO military commands, is closely monitoring the movements of a Russian military vessel currently sailing outside Iceland’s 12-nautical...

Bubbi Morthens filled Reykjavík’s Laugardalshöll arena twice over the weekend, while many more watched via livestream. Yet it nearly came to pass that his 70th birthday concerts would not happen at all.

“I remember going to Þingvellir as a child and attending the event there in 1994, but sadly not many times after except when showing tourists around. Therefore it was always in the back of my mind that it would be amazing to do a show there,”Jö...

We had a visitor at the editorial office, an old friend in the local music scene. He’s promoting a synthesiser he’s been designing with a small group of people for the past four years. It’s called LOVE synthesiser. It’s on pre-sale. It’s me...

The word for ship in Icelandic is skip. A stolid, dependable word. Say it with me, foreign devil: skip. Icelandic derives a rich vocabulary from this humble word. Skipulag, the word for organisation, can be directly translated as ship-arrangement. Th...

In Andri Snær Magnason’s recent novella, Jötunsteinn, a man throws a stone at a Range Rover. This being Andri Snær, the stone is also Reykjavík. The book is an argument about beauty, or the loss of it, in a city being shrouded in black cladding...

Should Iceland’s National Poet, Jónas Hallgrímsson, Be Dug Up? Jónas Hallgrímsson was a poet and writer born in 1807. In 1845 he died after falling down a flight of stairs in Copenhagen whilst drunk. For the past 30 years, his birthday, 16 Nove...