Iceland
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December 3, 2019 |
I stepped out of Keflavík airport at 4:30 a.m. Far off in the dimly lit parking lot was the bus to Reykjavík—parked, empty, still off-duty. Winds buffeted me from above, the cold air curling its way u... -
December 2, 2016 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews WLT contributing editor and Best Translated Book Award judge George Henson writes for Three Percent about the Neustadt Prize and keeping the foreign in transla... -
November 20, 2015 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews The National Book Awards winners were announced Wednesday night. The winners were Adam Johnson in fiction, Ta-Nehisi Coates in nonfiction, Robin Coste Lewis in poetry, a... -
June 15, 2015 |
Dissipating Cloudcover Stormbreak distances unseen from the storehouse lap of rain on the shingles sky ... -
June 20, 2013 |
Photo: Annie Atkins Last Christmas Day, NPR ran a story about the preeminence of the book among Christmas gifts in Iceland. In a country that has the most books per capita in the world, publishers re...
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