Marina Warner
Diary
TONIGHT – Introduction: Riddles of the Sphinx, BFI
17/11/25Marina 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
10/11/25Marina 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 …
That’s all folk: Marina Warner, the curator and mythographer creating a space for stories
24/10/25On 23 October 2025, The Guardian published the article, ‘That’s all folk: Marina Warner, the curator and mythographer creating a space for stories’ by Skye Sherwin, which marks the opening of The Shelter of Stories. The exhibition is open at Compton Ve …
Bridport Literary Festival, 5pm, 5th November 2025 (SOLD OUT)
22/10/25Sanctuary is an ancient right. In the classical world, it offered immunity to fugitives from justice; in medieval Europe it extended a reprieve to all who sought it in a church or holy site. But what does sanctuary mean in today’s world? With the growt …
Curator Tour and Tea: The Shelter of Stories, Compton Verney, 30 October 2025
20/10/25Take an exclusive guided tour of the exhibition The Shelter of Stories with Marina Warner and Senior Curator, Oli McCall, followed by conversation over tea and cake in our café. The exhibition brings together historic objects and images, alongside work …
The Shelter of Stories, Compton Verney exhibition – opening 25 October 2025!
20/10/25This groundbreaking exhibition, curated by writer Marina Warner with Oli McCall and Roger Malbert and designed by Simon Costin, explores the art of storytelling. It examines its close relationship with the sense of home and belonging, as well as its vi …
LRB Close Readings LIVE: Fiction and the Fantastic — Marina Warner | Adam Thirlwell | Edwin Frank – 17 October 2025
02/10/25Close Readings is the podcast subscription from the London Review of Books, in which longstanding contributors explore a literary period or theme through a selection of key works. In one of this year’s series, the writer and mythographer Marina Warner …
Untold Art: Lotte Reiniger’s papercut films, RA Magazine
01/09/25Marina wrote a short piece about the ever-delightful magic of Lotte Reiniger’s papercut films, specifically The Adventures of Prince Achmed, which will be one of the pieces included in The Shelter of Stories at Compton Verney this autumn and winter. Yo …
LRB Close Readings Fiction and the Fantastic Podcast: Jorges Luis Borges, with Chloe Aridjis
28/08/25Jorge Luis Borges was a librarian with rock star status, a stimulus for magical realism who was not a magical realist, and a wholly original writer who catalogued and defined his own precursors. It’s fitting that he was fascinated by paradoxes, and his …
Diary: Marina Warner on “The Books That Made Me”, Part II, Book Post
18/08/25As part of the project, “Folkore Reimagined,” the British Academy asked Marina Warner to join their “Books That Made Me” series by selecting some books that have shaped her life and work and talking about them with broadcaster Ritula Shah. This part II …