Marina Warner
Stories come from the past but speak to the present, and I have found that I need to write stories as well as deconstruct them and place them in historical contexts, because I myself love reading works of imagination, and I would like to join the conversation with admired predecessors, who range from Apuleius to Virginia Woolf, Italo Calvino, and Angela Carter.”
Recent Diary Entries
20 years of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award
Marina joined the 154th episode of the podcast BULAQ to discuss what has (and hasn’t) changed in the last twenty years in Arabic literature, publishing and translation. The episode is made to mark 20 years of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award, which Marina r …
28-29th October – ‘Brexit at Ten: Hopes for the Arts and Humanities?’ at All Souls College and Mansfield College, Oxford
The conference ‘Brexit at Ten: Hopes for the Arts and Humanities?’ is taking place in Oxford next week. Marina has been collaborating with The European Alliance of Academies, in cooperation with the Círculo de Bellas Artes (Spain), Akademie der Künste …
22 October 2026 Issue, New York Review of Books: ‘Possessed of Alchemystic Powers’
In this issue of the NYRB, Marina writes about Ithell Colquhoun – artist, writer and occultist – looking to various books to shape her in-depth piece, including Ithell Colquhoun: Between Worlds, Goose of Hermogenes and I Saw Water: An Occult Novel and …