#NPRreads: 3 Stories To Soak Up This Weekend

The premise is simple: Correspondents, editors and producers from our newsroom share the pieces that have kept them reading, using the #NPRreads hashtag. Each weekend, we highlight some of the best stories. The irony was irresistible: The same week NPR went to Greenland to look at high suicide rates, The New York Times Magazine went to Greenland's neighbor, Iceland -- but for a story on high rates of happiness and how that contentedness is partly powered by the country's vulcanic geology. Iceland came in second on a list of world's happiest countries, despite its arctic weather. It has no public plazas or pubs, but it does have public pools, heated geothermically to hot-tub temperatures.