Marina Warner

Alaa Abd el-Fattah’s tweets were wrong, but he is no ‘anti-white Islamist’. Why does the British right want you to believe he is? | Naomi Klein I have no interest in defending his social media posts, but calls to strip the newly freed activist of British citizenship pile torment on top of torture, says Naomi Klein, Guardian US columnist and c...

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a fine piece by Naomi Klein -- wise, clear,and just.

New History Books for Summer 2025 - Unseen Histories Our picks of a range of vibrant new history books that will be released over the months ahead.

📚 From Mary Queen of Scots to Fidel Castro, the Monsoon to earthquakes, here’s our selection of anticipated new history books that will be released over this summer. With new books by @marinawarner.bsky.social, @shafikmeghji.bsky.social,
@timqueeney.bsky.social and many more👇

BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Sanctuary, refuge and exile Tom Sutcliffe talks to Marina Warner, Oliver Basciano and Fergus Butler-Gallie.

In final episode of this season’s BBCRadio4 #bbcstw @tds153.bsky.social
talked to @marinawarner.bsky.social
@olibasciano.bsky.social & Fergus Butler-Gallie about their respective new books on Sactuary, the history of leprosy, & key church buildings. Get all 3!
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Podcast: Marina Warner and Adam Thirlwell · Close Readings: James Hogg and Mikhail Bulgakov London Review of Books

James Hogg & Mikhail Bulgakov

In the latest @lrb.co.uk podcast, @marinawarner.bsky.social & Adam Thirlwell look at how James Hogg’s JUSTIFIED SINNER & Bulgakov’s THE MASTER & MARGARITA represent fanaticism, & ask why both writers used the fantastical to test reality
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Burlington Contemporary - Journal - Versia Harris’s memorial to Hugh Springer: a response to Black Lives Matter protests at All Souls College On entering the antechamber of All Souls College Library, University of Oxford, the reader, scholar, student will see, set between the high windows, a tall pyramid reminiscent of the tomb of Gaius Ces...

Marina Warner writes in @burlingtoncontemp.bsky.social about "Versia Harris’s memorial to Hugh Springer: a response to Black Lives Matter protests at All Souls College"
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How to Create Sanctuary Now? Marina Warner explores the history of Sanctuary and how traditions and storytelling might help revive this ancient right in the present day

For the last online talk before our summer break we're delighted to be welcoming Professor Dame Marina Warner @marinawarner.bsky.social for her talk 'How to Create Sanctuary Now?’ Tuesday 15 July at 19:00 BST, tickets £6.00 (£4 for members with promo code) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-to-cre...

Save the Testament Sculptures at Exeter Cathedral Kenneth Carter’s “Testament Sculptures”, made specifically for the niches of the Chapter House of Exeter Cathedral, are under imminent threat of removal. These powerful works have enriched the cathedr...

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The sculptures look very striking, of historic importance and aesthetic originality, so their removal is very alarming.

Podcast: Marina Warner and Adam Thirlwell · Fiction and the Fantastic: Stories by Franz Kafka

www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and... The first exchange for LRB's Close Readings is with the writer Adam Thirlwell explores the paradoxically realistic fables of Franz Kafka - we both love his work for many reasons

Spirits, Salons & Sanctuary - Essex Book Festival Spirits, Salons & SanctuarySaturday 21 JuneSt Leonard-at-the-Hythe Church, Colchester An afternoon exploring Spirits, Salons and Sanctuary in the church of St Leonards through new books by poet and tr...

I’ll be in conversation with Holly Pester at the Essex Book Fest this June, and Marina Warner will be talking about her new book Sanctuary on the same afternoon! Date for the diaries, Essex friends essexbookfestival.org.uk/spirits-salo...

book here: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

@aucpress.bsky.social @soasuni.bsky.social 'Andalusia' beckons to us as an ideal society, a harmonious utopia. Radwa Ashour's magnificent trilogy is visionary, and a lens on to present conflicts. Do come to this launch, which includes her son, the poet Tamim Barghouti - SOAS, 13 May 2025, 6-8pm

Mysteries and grace | TLS

'If you are agnostic or atheist, you can delight in the virtuoso realization of these mysteries of the faith and lose yourself as if at the theatre.'

Marina Warner on the beauty and humanity of fourteenth-century Sienese art

Podcast: Marina Warner and Anna Della Subin · Fiction and the Fantastic: ‘Invisible Cities’ by Italo Calvino

In Episode 3 of FICTION & THE FANTASTIC, Marina Warner and I enter the labyrinth of Italo Calvino's INVISIBLE CITIES, and the text that inspired its frame, the 13th century travels of Marco Polo, composed from a prison cell. www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and... @lrb.co.uk

Podcast: Marina Warner and Anna Della Subin · Fiction and the Fantastic: ‘The Thousand and One Nights’ London Review of Books

Introducing FICTION & THE FANTASTIC, a new podcast series from the LRB, wherein Marina Warner and I traverse the classics of enchantment, to discover how it has been a mode of inquiry and hypothesis.... www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and... @londonreview.bsky.social

Podcast: Marina Warner and Anna Della Subin · Fiction and the Fantastic: ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ by Jonathan Swift

Episode 2 of FICTION & THE FANTASTIC is out, wherein Marina Warner and I take on a longtime favorite of mine—and to each her own pronunciation of "Houyhnhnm," the race of intelligent horses who have colonized mankind... www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and... @londonreview.bsky.social