A trip into the Arctic.

With its cheap geothermal energy and low crime rate, Iceland has become the world’s leading miner of digital currency. Then the crypto-crooks showed up.

On tourism and authenticity.

How the killing of a 20-year-old woman upended a nation’s sense of itself.

The writer travels with his father to Iceland and Greenland.

“Last August, I found myself wrung out and miserable over the state of the United States—the vitriol of the presidential election, the deep chasms of reality where we all seemed to find ourselves. I wanted to get the hell away, but not just away. I wanted out. I wanted nothing that resembled where I was coming from. I wanted everything new.”

Happiness is a warm pool.

As the birds decline, one Icelandic island keeps throwing a rowdy, boozy puffin festival.

The growth of an immersive universe that is “part game and part soap opera and part shadow economy.”

The volcanic ash cloud from Eyjafjallajokull has caused travel chaos and misery. But we were lucky. An eruption in the future could wipe out the human race.