A few craftsman in Iceland still practice the technique of building with turf, a tradition believed to date to the ninth century settlement of Europe's most sparsely-populated country. With walls and ...

Turf has been used as an architectural material for thousands of years by cultures across Europe and the Arctic since the Neolithic period. In Iceland, these green-cloaked dwellings melt into the ...

Most Big Macs are disposable things, eaten late at night in an attempt to soak up the liquor sloshing around in someone’s stomach or scarfed thoughtlessly in a car’s driver seat. One Big Mac in ...

Regarding Brad Leithauser’s review of Egill Bjarnason’s “How Iceland Changed the World” (Books, May 29): I first went to Iceland over Christmas 1965-66 to propose to a woman whom I had met when we ...

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