Circe’s Island. Like the Homeric enchantress, Betsy Wyeth created a magical new world on Allen and Benner islands. Conkling and Ralston helped execute the vision for “Betsy’s village” on Allen Island ...

Circe by Madeline Miller October 15, 2020 7:54 AM EDT A s the unwanted daughter of the titan sun god Helios and beautiful but cold nymph Perse, Circe is no stranger to cruelty or loneliness.

Miller believes Circe is the first witch ever chronicled in what we know as Western literature. “Our discomfort with women who wield unregulated power goes all the way back to the oldest stories ...