Click on the picture to accept a dinner invitation from one of the finest restaurants in Reykjavík, the Lobster House, which specializes in Icelandic lobster and is located in the heart of the city. This audio slideshow is brought to you by one of the restaurant’s chefs and shows you how to prepare one of his favorite lobster recipes.   more

Fjallabyggd (“Mountain Settlement”) is a skier’s dream. Its slopes are perfect for slaloming and there are also tracks for telemark skiing. Winter sporting enthusiasts can also go ice skating or rent snowmobiles. In summer, Fjallabyggd turns into a paradise for hikers. Read this special promotion about one of Iceland’s best hidden gems.  more

The autumn winds are up and they’ve brought with them the year’s third issue of Iceland Review. With the words “Pipe Dreams” emblazoned across the cover, this issue promises tales from a little island that dares to think big.

This issue presents a brand new section for up-and-coming movers and shakers, entitled “Petri Nation.” The section showcases five individuals or groups that might not have achieved international or even national renown yet, but who are shining stars that promise great things to come.

In keeping with this exploration of the Icelanders’ indomitable creative zest, Eliza Reid takes a look at the phenomenon of útrás, or “outvasion” as she calls it – whereby Icelandic artists and entrepreneurs export ideas abroad to great acclaim.

Intrepid adventurer Jonas Moody spends an eye-opening day on the road with one of a growing number of female truckers, or “Big Rig Chicks.” A male-dominated world, more and more women have taken to the open road and it’s setting a new trend.

Freelancer Greg Bocquet goes underground to speak with Iceland’s destitute in his investigation of the little-acknowledged but growing problem of homelessness in Reykjavík.

With the spirit of defiance very much to the fore in this issue, Tobias Munthe explores Icelandic Kling & Bang Galley’s madcap plan to demolish one of Reykjavík’s landmark bars and rebuild it for the prestigious Frieze Art Fair in London.

Interviewees include “The King of Icelandic Pop” Páll Óskar Hjálmtýsson, Channel-swimming, thrill-seeking baker Benedikt Hjartarsson and impresario extraordinaire and new artistic director of the Reykjavík City Theatre, Magnús Geir Thórdarson.

Also in this issue, a preview of the Reykjavík International Filmfest and the tenth annual Airwaves Music Festival, a photographic expedition of East Iceland and India, Reykjavík City Hall’s changing fortune, Icelandic street fashion on the net, an interview with puckish singer/songwriter Ólöf Arnalds and Páll Stefánsson’s photographic study of ice.

Discover Iceland through the magazine that has reported on the country’s woes and wonders for 45 years. Click here to look at a selection of pages from the new issue and here to subscribe to the magazine. (New subscribers receive the highland guidebook Adventure in Iceland as a gift.)

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Congratulations William Zuk of Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, USA, the 2006 winner of Iceland Review’s “Win a Trip to Iceland” Contest. Click here to subscribe to Iceland Review and win a trip to Iceland next year! Offer includes roundtrip airfare to Iceland from any of Icelandair’s destinations. Ticket valid for one year.

Million Percent Men tells the story of Engilbert, who, upon returning to Iceland from America, becomes a successful businessman, leading a luxurious life and being the envy of everyone in town. Although the style of writing is chaotic, the story gives a fairly accurate and humorous account of Icelandic society and how it developed from roughly 1930 to 1970.  more

As former Senior Designer at both Calvin Klein and Gucci as well as Design Director at La Perla, Steinunn Sigurdardóttir is no stranger to the glitter and glam of the fashion world. This year she was the first fashion designer ever to be awarded the prestigious Söderberg Prize.  more

This week visit the ASÍ Art Museum for a retrospective exhibition of the works of Gylfi Gíslason. Gíslason, who was best known for his drawings, was also a designer, teacher, curator, art critic and a producer of radio and television programs. The exhibition includes samples of his drawings, illustrations and three-dimensional artwork.  more