We’ve got a list of our favourite 80 Icelandic releases of 2026 so far, and we’re doing our best to write them up. We’ll get them out to you as time allows.

A new series of paintings by Helgi Þorgils Friðjónsson uses familiar Icelandic flora and fauna to make the viewer question what they are looking at.

The Reykjavík Grapevine, worried about the state of the global economy, has commissioned a series of articles on the subtle art of business. The idea is to give you, dear reader, a leg up so that even you may join the ranks of the super-wealthy.

Unfortunately, it’s easy to tell when it’s Reykjavík Grapevine publishing day, for that is when, for the first time in two weeks, our readers emerge in their thousands from their mouldy garage apartments; with stooped and halting gait, they stum...