Alex Preston wrote his review of Sanctuary for The Observer (20 July 2025), calling it a ‘dazzling meditation on the idea of home, hospitality and refuge’. Preston also writes: ‘The pleasure of the book is following the chains of ideas Warner links together, as she riffs on associations so loose you fear she might have wandered from the path altogether, only to return to her central thesis. She leaps from high culture to low, literature to visual art, deep time to the present.’