It may be billed as a ‘thrilling feminist historical novel’, but some of the plot contrivances in Kate Foster’s new book are too tenuous to be convincing, writes Stuart Kelly ...

Tabish Khan takes on nearly every national pavilion at the Venice Biennale with fast, funny and brutally concise one-sentence ...

Iceland has stood apart from the rest of Europe. But President Trump’s threats to Greenland have provoked a reconsideration.

Officials announced new funding on Wednesday to help secure the annual Mermaid Parade's future after organizers warned of a financial crisis earlier this year.

From the eight senators to their staff and military liaison officers, the group will be entirely women as they pay diplomatic visits to government officials in four Arctic nations.

Surtsey was formed by volcanic eruptions in the 1960s – and has been legally protected ever since ...

One of the strangest tales in Icelandic folklore concerns a creature called the Loðsilungur, or the furry trout. The trout, ...