
Village People
Halldór Laxness, Iceland’s Nobel laureate, was an inexhaustibly prolific chronicler of impoverished village life, though he never got over the impracticality of literature.
Salka Valka
by Halldór Laxness, translated from the Icelandic by Philip Roughton
Independent People
by Halldór Laxness, translated from the Icelandic by J. A. Thompson, with an introduction by John Freeman
November 24, 2022 issue