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
19 February 2026, Marina introduces Dr Soody Gholami’s ‘Unhomely England in Post-Imperial British Novels’
Next Thursday evening, join the book launch of Unhomely England in Post-Imperial British Novels by Dr Soody Gholami, which will be introduced by Marina. The event is from 6-8pm, and is taking place at Birkbeck Central (Malet St, London WC1E 7HY). Soody …
Marina’s EXPs!
There are three videos up on the EXPeditions website where Marina talks about ways of looking, making and understanding art. EXPeditions is: the open-access digital platform created to bridge the gap between scholars and members of the public. Our edit …
ICYMI: Marina’s books of the year for the TLS!
Marina selected the following books of note for the TLS: Ariella Aïsha Azoulay’s The Jewelers of the Ummah: A potential history of the Jewish Muslim world (Verso) makes an inspired, urgent and poetic plea to remember that Arabs and Jews once coexisted …