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
25 Nov 2025 – The Cosmic Oval @ Warburg Institute, 6pm
Join for an evening of conversation at the Warburg Institute with writer Ella Finer and eminent, writer, mythographer and cultural historian Marina Warner. Ella Finer’s new book The Cosmic Oval takes a nocturnal entrance into an exploration of feminist …
TONIGHT – Introduction: Riddles of the Sphinx, BFI
Marina will be introducing Laura Mulvey’s seminal film, Riddles of the Sphinx, a ‘dreamlike and meditative landmark of feminist cinema’ that features an ‘experimental narrative structure, a revolutionary visual style and hypnotic music’. The screening …
In Conversation and Book Signing, 4 December 2025, Compton Verney
Marina will be at Compton Verney on Thursday 4th December (11.30-1pm) to give an event about the exhibition The Shelter of Stories: Ways of Telling, Ways of Dwelling. She will be joined in conversation with Oli McCall, senior curator at Compton Verney …