Dispatches from Greenland, Part Two: Nuuk

Dispatches from Greenland, Part Two: Nuuk

Greenland is too vast to take in all at once. Yet a few days in Nuuk—the island’s compact, curious capital, just a four-hour flight from Newark—offer a surprisingly complete portrait. Nuuk changes like the weather that shapes it: by turns wild and polished; intimate and bold. To Northerners, it feels as hectic as Manhattan; to diplomats, a confident Arctic capital; to travelers, a first glimpse of the North. But its true power lies in the subtle…