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
LRB Close Readings LIVE: Fiction and the Fantastic — Marina Warner | Adam Thirlwell | Edwin Frank – 17 October 2025
Close 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
Marina 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
Jorge 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 …