“The great theme across Marina Warner’s work is metamorphosis, “of bodies changed / to different forms,” as Ovid sang.” —Anna Della Subin (@annadella.bsky.social)

“To inquire into the soul is to enter the realm of the political. Along with goods for trade and plundered wealth, concepts of the soul have traveled the networks of empire.” —Anna Della Subin (@annadella.bsky.social)

“In Warner’s work, new technologies do not dispel but verify enchantment, confirming the presence, ever around us, of an unseen world.”

@annadella.bsky.social from a talk delivered at the conference Enchanting Wor(l)ds: The Works of Marina Warner.

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“When I moved the time machine’s lever to the year 1991,/it began to shake severely and seemed as if on fire,” Mikhail writes, recalling the terror of living through Operation Desert Storm.

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In Dunya Mikhail's work, the mythic, the journalistic, and the poetic meet; war transforms into a Type A character, and Enheduana talks with Siri in a dream. My latest in @nybooks.com www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

If you follow the sun around the globe at six o'clock, it's always six o'clock.

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In Episode 4 of FICTION & THE FANTASTIC, it's always six o'clock. Marina Warner and I step across the silvery mist of Lewis Carroll's looking-glass, to a place where queens scoot backwards and can remember the future. We ask, who was it that dreamed it all? @lrb.co.uk

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Sahlins detected “a clear and simple law of revolution”: that it is the rulers, not the revolutionaries, who undermine a society’s government. “It is from deep traditional values that the opposition draws its outrage—and in defense of them, takes to the streets.” www.thenation.com/article/cult...

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

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

There are now more than fifty LRB writers on Bluesky - including @torilmoi.bsky.social, @jessiechilds.bsky.social, @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social and @bekadiski.bsky.social with writing in our new issue and on the blog this week.

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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

Here are some of my favorite reads from 2024.

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If in London— please join me, Bidoun, & many others on Sunday for readings from the Gaza Reader, in support of the Artist Fundraiser for MSF in Palestine www.artistfundraiser.com