Memorializing a Glacier and Hoping for the Future By Sari Botton Highlight Iceland holds a funeral for Okjökull, once a glacier, now “dead ice.”
The Symbiotics of Harvesting Eider Down By Krista Stevens Highlight “There is an irresistible simplicity to the relationship between the harvesters and the eiders.”
West Across the Sea By Sam Riches Feature Tryggvi Hlinason is a sheep farmer at the center of a new generation of Icelandic basketball talent. He’s trying to do something that only one other Icelander has done before — play in the NBA.
Putting a New Stone on the Grave: Sjón Brings the Golem to Iceland By Adam Morgan Feature Sjón’s “CoDex 1962” is the fulfillment of a pact he made with the Maharal of Prague in the Old Jewish Cemetery almost three decades ago.
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