📚 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👇

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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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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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"
contemporary.burlington.org.uk/journal/jour... @marinawarner.bsky.social

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

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

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...

@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

'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

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

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

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