The Idea of the Island

Mary Wellesley talks to Joanna Biggs about islands, blessed and not so blessed, from Homer to the Fyre Festival.

Read more by Mary Wellesley in the LRB:

On Blessed Isles

On anchorites

On Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

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