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Marina Warner @marinawarner.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Sarah Ruhl's Stage Kiss is an effervescent farce, which plays with illusion and reality, pretence and sincerity in a thoughtful way. Its multilayered storyline makes huge demands on the quicksilver cast, to clown, swoon, crack jokes and weep www.hampsteadtheatre.com/whats-on/202...

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Marina Warner @marinawarner.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

www.marciafarquhar.com/actsofclothi... www.marciafarquhar.com/actsofclothi... Trying to declutter my wardrobe, Marcia Farquhar's perfomance piece Acts of Clothing flashed up in my inward eye: a brilliant, witty, deep, and humane piece of memory work - unforgettable, classic.

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Marina Warner @marinawarner.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event... Julia's new book explores the workshop as a lab of the self, a highroad to friendship, a city , a world in a room. My study of sanctuary's close relations with stories intersects vividly with her experience. Come and take part !

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The Country of Words

Join Marina Warner and Julia Bell to discover two new books on the sanctuary of words.

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Unseen Histories @unseenhistories.com · 10/07/2025

📚 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👇

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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.

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Prof Bob Davis @rokewood.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

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! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Sanctuary, refuge and exile

Tom Sutcliffe talks to Marina Warner, Oliver Basciano and Fergus Butler-Gallie.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 02/07/2025

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 www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...

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Podcast: Marina Warner and Adam Thirlwell · Close Readings: James Hogg and Mikhail Bulgakov

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The Folklore Society @folkloresociety.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

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...

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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

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Marina Warner @marinawarner.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

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

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

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Clare Pollard @poetclare.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

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...

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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...

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Marina Warner @marinawarner.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

@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

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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

'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

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Mysteries and grace | TLS

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Anna Della Subin @annadella.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

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

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

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Anna Della Subin @annadella.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

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

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

London Review of Books

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Anna Della Subin @annadella.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

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

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

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