Canadian poet and author Anne Carson has been awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Literature. Ingrid Carlberg, Secretary of the Swedish Academy, announced the winner at the Academy's headquarters in Stockholm at 11 a.m. yesterday.

Prime Minister Kristrún Frostadóttir says it is welcome news and of great importance to the Icelandic economy that an agreement has been reached between labour market representatives, the government and municipalities, ensuring that collective a...

It is clear that the economy is cooling and job creation has slowed to some extent. Despite this, export industries such as fisheries and aluminium production are performing well, and tourism is also doing reasonably well, all things considered. T...

Canada's Foreign Minister Anita Anand, Greenland's Foreign Minister Múte B. Egede, and European Commissioner for International Partnerships Jozef Síkela will be the first speakers in an urgent discussion on the future of the Arctic on th...

The chairman of the Icelandic Home and School Association says the Icelandic Teachers’ Union (KÍ) is misleading the debate about the state of Iceland’s education system, including by making incorrect claims about the length of the school year...

On September 26, 2026, Foreign Minister Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir stood at the podium of the General Assembly of the United Nations and unloaded one of the most formidable speeches in Icelandic history. A multi-pronged declaration of shared ...

We are preparing the magazine for our annual Iceland Airwaves coverage, which in this case will include our new public-access storefront. Since I started working with this paper, music and music coverage has been one of our touchpoints. We originally...

My first impression of Howie B is through his cigarette butt. He points it at the camera, takes another hit, while sitting at his kitchen table. “Sorry I am a wee bit late. I just had to make a wee coffee first.” Howard Bernstein, “Howie B,” ...

He has rarely made our magazine, but Saint Pete is the talk of the town. On October 9, 2026, he will perform what he calls the Concert of the Century at N1 höllin. His album TVÍBRRRI was just released. Our attention had been focused on Alaska 1867,...

Films depicting historical events often need to recreate facsimile locations on soundstages. Such was not the case for The Brink of War, recounting the October 11-12, 1986 disarmament summit between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and his Soviet counter...