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
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 …
‘Rachel Weeping for Her Children’: Memories of Massacre, Flight and Refuge – Anna Jameson Lecture 2026 now online!
On March 23 2026, Marina gave the Anna Jameson Lecture 2026 at the National Gallery. Fifty years after the publication of Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary (1976), Marina Warner revisited the figure of the mater dolorosa th …