By coincidence, two great articles on Iceland’s economic collapse came out this week. The one by Michael Lewis is funnier and available for free online so it’s been more widely linked, but the one by Ian Parker is more evocative and does more to explain what actually happened. But runnin...

Great article by Michael Lewis on the reasons for the Icelandic financial collapse. Favourite quote: 'Before Alcoa could build its smelter it had to defer to a government expert to scour the enclosed plant site and certify that no elves were on or under it. It was a delicate corporate situation, an ...

Bob Sutton: The Enron Code of Ethics: Something Every Boss Should Read - My hypothesis is that the longer a code of ethics in a company, the more likely they are too be sleazeballs. As I've heard my father-in-law say many times, when people talk about ethics and morals more than seems necessary,...

On Bondadagur, or Husband's Day, the menfolk of Iceland are spoiled by their wives and girlfriends, who serve them with traditional delicacies such as ram's testicles and sheep's head jelly, a recipe for which is handily included in the latest online edition of Iceland Review, alongside the latest b...

Food glorious food. I love great food so when the Iceland Gourmet Guide website was launched I was in heaven. Now I can easily search Icelandic regions to find fantastic cuisine before my travels to the wondrous island! This new gastronomic guide also features an introduction to Icelandic prod...

Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl is an Icelandic poet. He translates Icelandic poetry into English (I particularly like his versions of Sigfús Daðason), and he has an interesting interview on Icelandic poetry ("Curiously enough, back in the days the nationalists wo...

So I thought it would be a challenge for the groups to rebrand Iceland...the country not the home of frozen foods.Given the recent financial situation, the image of the country has been hit as hard as the economy itself.So the......

It’s interesting that moral quibbles take a backseat to perceived leadership efficacy when economic times get hard. Remember the Clinton years, which happened to be boom years, and the womanizing controversy? Running an impeachment trial on purely moral grounds seems like distant history in li...

    Johanna Sigurdardottir, named as Iceland's prime minister on Sunday, is the first openly lesbian head of government in Europe, if not the world - at least in modern times.     The 66-year-old's appointment as an interim leader, until elections in May, is s...

Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir became today Iceland's, and the world's, first openly lesbian prime minister....