| 'A Bookshop in Cairo' MW will give an illustrated talk and reading at the British Library from her work in progress about a bookish childhood in Cairo to the friends of The British Library on 2nd March 2010. 'Animating a Myth for our times: The Lawsuit of the Animals against Humanity' MW will speak at the panel discussion at Wolfson Theatre at LSE on Saturday 13th February 2010. 'Baba Yaga and Other Hags': review of Dubravka Ugresic's latest novel, London Review of Books, 27 August 2009 'Rat and Bear: The Animal Fables of Fischli/Weiss' in Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Are Animals People? Exhibition catalogue, Reina Sofia, Madrid, 2009
'The Metamorphoses of Narcissus', in The Body and the Arts, ed. Corinne Saunders, Palgrave, 2009. ''Memories of the Martyrs’, for conference on The Passion of Saint Perpetua, Berlin. Forthcoming, edited by Jan Bremmer and Marco Formisano, Oxford University Press.
'Cable', a response for Parkett's the 25th anniversary theme Transatlantic appears in the next ssue. It is inspired by a visit to Valentia island with the artist Dorothy Cross. 'Chronicle of a Life Repaired', 'introduction to the book by Bobby Baker: Diary Drawings Mental Illness and Me , forthcoming from Profile Books, 2010. Introduction to An Essex Attitude in poems by Adrian May , published by Wivenbooks, 2009. 
The magic couch from the story of Aladdin of the Beauty Spots,
illustrated by William Harvey | | MW is writing a book about the Tales of 1001 Nights and their impact on modern ideas of enchantment. Working title: Stranger Magic. LSE Literary Festival: The Animals' Lawsuit against Humanity', a panel discussion, Feb 13 at 6.30 Dec 15-17 2009 'The Arabian Nights: Encounters and Translations in Literature and the Arts'. Three days of talks and readings about the Tales of 1001 Nights at NYU's Institute of the Humanities in Abu Dhabi, convened by Philip Kennedy and MW, with invited participants from the Middle East, United States, India, Japan, and Europe. 'The Language of Stones' appears in the catalogue of The Dark Monarch:Magic and Modernity', Tate St Ives.
'Fruit Bomb', about a talisman in the Pitt Rivers Museum Oxford appears in the catalogue of Magic Show, a South Bank touring exhibition curated by Sally O'Reilly and Jonathan Allen.
24 November 6.30 pm 'The Figures in the Carpet: Magic and the 1001 Nights', Lecture at Queen Mary, London, where MW is Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities. MW Contributed the Guest Choice to Magma Poetry Issue 45 Winter 2009/10. Marina Warner introduces the work of forgotten poet Helen Adam, and her disturbing, gothic poem ‘I Love my Love’. Page 22 please see here for details. | | She is working on a novel inspired by her father's bookshop in Egypt in the Fifties. Working title: Inventory of a Life Mislaid
MW read at Shakespeare & Co, Paris, on November 16, 2009 
'Forget My Fate', short story in Midsummer Nights, ed. Jeanette Winterson, Quercus, 2009 'The Difference in the Dose', Bath Music Festival , published Royal College of Art, London, 2009, with illustrations by Zoe Taylor. Please see here. ' Mother Rat', a memoir, in Grandparents A Celebration ed. Sarah Brown and Gil McNeil, Ebury Press 'Cancellanda', short story, to be reprinted with commentary in New Cassandras, ed. Sanja Bahun, forthcoming, Ashgate, 2010 Brigitta's Cell , a short story written fo BBC Radio 4. will be appearing in Italian in a single small volume. 
WH Smith and Son, Cairo, 1948 - MW's father's bookshop
The same building today |
