The Nordic Riveter is now available in its 100-page entirety! You can download it here.
And finally, as promised, an exclusive from the Master of Minimalist Literature, John Crace. It was the body of a seventy-year-old man. His head battered by an ashtray. Erlendur kn
Most publishers assumed that, like all trends, the appetite for Nordic Noir would wane and another genre would slip into its place; however, this certainly hasn’t been the case.
And another Riveting Exclusive! Our thanks to Icelandic author Jón Kalman Stefánsson, his translator, Philip Roughton and publisher, Benedikt Publishing. The Story of Ásta is t
Yo-Yo, Steinunn Sigurðardóttir’s award-winning novel, brought to English readers in the translation by Rory McTurk, is the chronicle of a successful oncologist whose life, desp
Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was, the latest novel in English by Icelandic poet, writer, and lyricist, Sjón, and excellently translated by Victoria Cribb, continues the author’s
Finishing this short collection of contemporary Nordic writing, I have an overwhelming sense of a region suffering trauma. Or at least a group of authors from that region expressin
Twenty or thirty years ago, most people in the English-speaking world knew little to nothing about Iceland, save for our odd appearance in a 1990 episode of Twin Peaks (Google it!)
The Icelandic author Sjón, his translator Victoria Cribb and his UK publisher Sceptre have honoured The Riveter magazine by giving us an exclusive extract from Sjón’s forthcomi
