Christopher Cook examines what exile has meant to writers and artists down the ages, including Rabbi Neuberger on the Jewish diaspora, Oliver Taplin on Ovid's Poems of an Exile, Nicholas Mann on Petrarch's surprisingly modern views on statehood, Valentine Cunningham on the generation of British romantics for whom self-imposed exile was often an extension of the Grand Tour, and Homi Bhaba on what contemporary writers make of exile in a world linked by the World Wide Web.
