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The island kingdom of Redonda.

Men of Destiny

Islands are quasi-natural sovereign lordships, but there’s nothing natural—or normal—about the self-made kings who have laid claim to them over the years.

By William Bryk

Issue 5 Editors' Note

Introducing the Islands Issue.

By Last Exit Staff

Sightseeing With The Enemy

An aspiring foreign correspondent attempts to cross into isolated Myanmar just in time for the revolution.

By Danny Gold

The McVineyard

Move to the island and the Chicken McNugget will look like a piece of art.

By Bryan Joiner

Austin Wanders

A wide-eyed ramble through the snobbery vacuum that is South By Southwest. With photographs by Ana Monroe.

By Teresa Herrmann

5 Questions Robert Young Pelton

Robert Young Pelton

Robert Young Pelton has made a career of traveling to war zones, figuring out what’s happening on both sides of the conflict and writing about it in magazines and books – from his signature Dangerous Places travel guides to his most recent insider’s look at Blackwater, Licensed to Kill. But whatever you do, don’t call him a journalist.

An Acquired Taste

On the Micronesian island of Pohnpei, local culture revolves around sakau, a foul-tasting muck that induces paralysis, comforts mourners and sometimes even solves legal disputes.

By Walmsley Apricot

On The Rocks

Returning to the tiny Croatian island of Lokrum more than 15 years after war forced her family abroad, a native leaves the sandy beaches for a better way to take in the Adriatic.

By Vesna Jaksic

5 Questions

Amos Poe

Legendary underground filmmaker Amos Poe, a founder of the No Wave Cinema movement that exploded out of the Lower East Side during the ‘70s and ‘80s, has done what seemed impossible: A captivating time-lapse remake of Andy Warhol’s Empire, the artist’s notorious 1964 black and white silent film that consisted of a single shot stretched out over eight hours and five minutes. Poe spoke to us the day after his Empire II showed at New York’s Gershwin Hotel with an improvised live soundtrack provided by Thurston Moore, Tom Surgal and Matt Heyner.

This Island

In the latest installment of Keach Hagey’s blog about life in Abu Dhabi, she goes to a tiki bar and finds herself feeling very much on an island – though probably not the kind that the Polynesian-costumed staff intends.

By Keach Hagey