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
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 …
27 January 2026, Chatter #1: Richard Wentworth with Roger Malbert, Rowan Moore and Marina Warner
Drawing Matter’s 2026 Public Programme begins with the launch of Chatter, a new series of evening events in the archive. Chatter evenings are opportunities to gather and talk around drawings and objects from the collection chosen by an invited guest (o …