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a fine piece by Naomi Klein -- wise, clear,and just.
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Alaa Abd el-Fattahās tweets were wrong, but he is no āanti-white Islamistā. Why does the British right want you to believe he is? | Naomi Klein
I have no interest in defending his social media posts, but calls to strip the newly freed activist of British citizenship pile torment on top of torture, says Naomi Klein, Guardian US columnist and c...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/31/alaa-abd-el-fattah-tweets-british-right-citizenship
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Unseen Histories
6 months ago
š From Mary Queen of Scots to Fidel Castro, the Monsoon to earthquakes, hereās our selection of anticipated new history books that will be released over this summer. With new books by
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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.
https://www.unseenhistories.com/history-books-preview-summer-2025
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Prof Bob Davis
6 months ago
In final episode of this seasonās BBCRadio4
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talked to
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& 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.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002dz53
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Association for Scottish Literature
6 months ago
James Hogg & Mikhail Bulgakov In the latest
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& Adam Thirlwell look at how James Hoggās JUSTIFIED SINNER & Bulgakovās 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 Ā· Close Readings: James Hogg and Mikhail Bulgakov
London Review of Books
https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/the-lrb-podcast/close-readings-james-hogg-and-mikhail-bulgakov
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Craig Clunas
6 months ago
Marina Warner writes in
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about "Versia Harrisās memorial to Hugh Springer: a response to Black Lives Matter protests at All Souls College"
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Burlington Contemporary - Journal - Versia Harrisās memorial to Hugh Springer: a response to Black Lives Matter protests at All Souls College
On entering the antechamber of All Souls College Library, University of Oxford, the reader, scholar, student will see, set between the high windows, a tall pyramid reminiscent of the tomb of Gaius Ces...
https://contemporary.burlington.org.uk/journal/journal/versia-harriss-memorial-to-hugh-springer-a-response-to-black-lives-matter-protests-at-all-souls-college?utm_source=Solus+newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=BCJ12
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The Folklore Society
6 months ago
For the last online talk before our summer break we're delighted to be welcoming Professor Dame Marina Warner
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for her talk 'How to Create Sanctuary Now?ā Tuesday 15 July at 19:00 BST, tickets Ā£6.00 (Ā£4 for members with promo code)
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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
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-to-create-sanctuary-now-tickets-1430210039729
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The sculptures look very striking, of historic importance and aesthetic originality, so their removal is very alarming.
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Save the Testament Sculptures at Exeter Cathedral
Kenneth Carterās āTestament Sculpturesā, made specifically for the niches of the Chapter House of Exeter Cathedral, are under imminent threat of removal. These powerful works have enriched the cathedr...
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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 Ā· Fiction and the Fantastic: Stories by Franz Kafka
https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/close-readings/fiction-and-the-fantastic-stories-by-franz-kafka
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Clare Pollard
9 months ago
Iāll 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
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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...
https://essexbookfestival.org.uk/spirits-salons-sanctuary/
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'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
9 months ago
'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
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/arts/visual-arts/siena-national-gallery-book-review-marina-warner?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1744892446
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Anna Della Subin
9 months ago
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.
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Podcast: Marina Warner and Anna Della Subin Ā· Fiction and the Fantastic: āInvisible Citiesā by Italo Calvino
https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/close-readings/fiction-and-the-fantastic-invisible-cities-by-italo-calvino
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Anna Della Subin
12 months ago
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...
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Podcast: Marina Warner and Anna Della Subin Ā· Fiction and the Fantastic: āThe Thousand and One Nightsā
London Review of Books
https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/close-readings/fiction-and-the-fantastic-the-thousand-and-one-nights
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Anna Della Subin
11 months ago
Episode 2 of FICTION & THE FANTASTIC is out, wherein Marina Warner and I take on a longtime favorite of mineāand to each her own pronunciation of "Houyhnhnm," the race of intelligent horses who have colonized mankind...
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Podcast: Marina Warner and Anna Della Subin Ā· Fiction and the Fantastic: āGulliverās Travelsā by Jonathan Swift
https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/close-readings/fiction-and-the-fantastic-gulliver-s-travels-by-jonathan-swift
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