Wealth fuels sprawl. It can also buy a false sense of being away, guarded from reality. In one such fictional … More
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beach holiday in indonesia by Oscar Gaynor
a grain of sand meets another rolling in a swell: plom plom plom tink plom plom plom whoosh. beaches are … More
TGI Friday by Paul Clinton
Can one desire foreign islands and ‘the other’ without falling into the trap of exoticism? Michel Tournier’s 1967 novel Vendredi (Friday) offers … More
Traffic Island by Jeremy Atherton Lin
My earliest memory is of an island in winter, its formidable mountain blanketed with snow. We descended on plastic saucers, … More
Olivia Laing
The lido is an island state, I’ve just decreed that. I’ve got a pass but you can have one too. … More
Bryony Quinn
Micronesian stick charts were used by seafarers to cross great distances of water where land sat below the horizon, frequently … More
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