Marina Warner
Diary
22 October 2026 Issue, New York Review of Books: ‘Possessed of Alchemystic Powers’
05/10/26In 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!
29/09/26On 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 …
29 September 2026, 6-8pm, Richard Saltoun Gallery, ‘On Felicity Powell: In-Conversation with Marina Warner & Sarah Turner’
07/09/26As part of the programme for The Studio of Felicity Powell exhibition (on display until 3 October 2026), Marina will be in conversation with Sarah Turner (Director of the Paul Mellon Centre). Marina Warner is a writer of cultural history, fiction and c …
ICYMI: ‘Adored Image: Celia Paul’s Ghosts’, London Review of Books
23/07/26Marina wrote a piece about Celia Paul for the London Review of Books. Part of Vol. 48, No. 12 (9 July 2026); the essay is about a publication of Paul’s work recently published by MACK Books, Celia Paul: Works 1975-2025. The piece is available to read o …
Edinburgh International Book Festival, 24 Aug 2026
06/07/26What is ‘sanctuary’? Is it a sacred place where travellers and refugees might find safety and solace? Or is it a homeland to be shuttered and defended against incomers from the outside world? Exploring the concept throughout history and myth in her boo …
POSTPONED – 26 June 2026, Stories in Transit at Essex Book Festival!
26/05/26The next Stories in Transit workshop is taking place on Friday 26 June, at St Leonard-at-the-Hythe Church (Hythe Hill Colchester, Essex CO1 2NP), 12-5pm, as part of the 2026 Essex Book Festival. Stories in Transit is an ongoing workshop series, invitin …
My Parish Drawings
25/05/26Read Marina’s piece for Drawing Matter’s online ‘Texts’, in which she talks about a series of drawings she bought decades ago by Henry William Parish. They date from the 1790s and document his time on an expedition to China: During the long sea voyage, …
7 June 2026, JLF London at the British Library
18/05/26Marina is taking part in two events on Sunday 7 June at Jaipur Literature Festival London, which are happening in the British Library: The Shelter of Stories with Samantha Ellis and Namita Gokhale, in conversation with Somnath Batabyal 12.30-1.3 …
EXPeditions – Sanctuary: Ways of Telling, Ways of Dwelling, in conversation with Lisa Appignanesi
11/05/26Listen to Marina in conversation with Lisa Appignanesi about Sanctuary: Ways of Telling, Ways of Dwelling: Marina Warner takes the idea of Sanctuary into an ethical and imaginative register and consider it as a set of images, places, stories, as well a …
5 May 2026 – The Country of Words, Birkbeck Arts Week event + workshop
22/04/26Julia Bell’s new book, Between the Lines, explores the creative writing class from personal experience of its dynamics. Marina Warner’s recent study, Sanctuary: Ways of Telling, Ways of Dwelling, proposes that imaginative story-making can build home an …