Marina Warner

Marina Warner’s piece in this issue will be published in a different version later this year in a festschrift for Michael Sheringham. She is, among many other things, a contributing editor at the LRB.

In the LRB Archive:

• Anglo-Egyptian Attitudes · 5 January 2017

• Video: Those Brogues, Again · 26 October 2016

• Those Brogues · 6 October 2016

• Diary: Medea · 3 December 2015

• At the V&A: Alexander McQueen · 4 June 2015

• Learning My Lesson · 19 March 2015

• Video: Learning My Lesson · 19 March 2015

• Performances for Sleepless Tyrants: ‘Tales of the Marvellous’ · 8 January 2015

  • Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange translated by Malcolm Lyons, introduced by Robert Irwin

• Diary: Why I Quit · 11 September 2014

• Forty Thousand Kilocupids: The Femfatalatron · 31 July 2014

  • The Erotic Doll: A Modern Fetish by Marquard Smith

• Story-Bearers: Abdelfattah Kilito · 17 April 2014

  • Je parle toutes les langues, mais en arabe by Abdelfattah Kilito

• Short Cuts: The Flood · 6 March 2014

• Wrong Kind of Noise: Silence is Best · 19 December 2013

  • Silence: A Christian History by Diarmaid MacCulloch

• At Camden Arts Centre · 5 December 2013

• Death in Plain Sight · 4 July 2013

• Shakespeare: Our Contemporary? · 1 February 2013

• At the V&A: ‘Hollywood Costume’ · 20 December 2012

• Everybody’s Joan · 6 December 2012

• Our Lady of the Counterculture: The Virgin Mary · 8 November 2012

• In Hell: Wat Phai Rong Wua · 13 September 2012

• Once a Catholic…: Damien Hirst · 5 July 2012

  • Damien Hirst

• The Labile Self: Dressing Up · 5 January 2012

  • Dressing Up: Cultural Identity in Renaissance Europe by Ulinka Rublack

• At the Hayward: Tracey Emin · 25 August 2011

• In the Time of Not Yet: Going East · 16 December 2010

• Did she go willingly?: Helen of Troy · 7 October 2010

  • Helen of Troy: From Homer to Hollywood by Laurie Maguire

• A View of a View: Melchior Lorck · 27 May 2010

  • Melchior Lorck edited by Erik Fischer, Ernst Jonas Bencard and Mikael Bøgh Rasmussen

• Witchiness: Baba Yaga · 27 August 2009

  • Baba Yaga Laid an Egg by Dubravka Ugrešić, translated by Ellen Elias Bursác, Celia Hawkesworth and Mark Thompson

• Ventriloquism: Dear Old Khayyám · 9 April 2009

  • Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám by Edward FitzGerald, edited by Daniel Karlin

• Travelling Text: ‘The Arabian Nights’ · 18 December 2008

  • The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights translated by Malcolm Lyons, with Ursula Lyons
  • ‘The Arabian Nights’ in Historical Context: Between East and West edited by Saree Makdisi and Felicity Nussbaum

• Doubly Damned: literary riddles · 8 February 2007

  • Enigmas and Riddles in Literature by Eleanor Cook

• Pick the small ones: Girls Are Rubbish · 17 February 2005

  • Never Marry a Woman with Big Feet: Women in Proverbs from around the World by Mineke Schipper

• Into Thin Air: Science at the Séances · 3 October 2002

  • The Invention of Telepathy by Roger Luckhurst

• A New Twist in the Long Tradition of the Grotesque: the monstrousness of Britart · 13 April 2000

  • High Art Lite: British Art in the 1990s by Julian Stallabrass
  • This is Modern Art by Matthew Collings

• Is there another place from which the dickhead’s self can speak?: the body and law · 1 October 1998

  • Bodies of Law by Alan Hyde

• Suffering Souls: ghosts in the middle ages. · 18 June 1998

  • Ghosts in the Middle Ages: The Living and the Dead in Medieval Society by Jean-Claude Schmitt, translated by Theresa Lavender Fagan

• Peroxide Mug-Shot: women who kill children · 1 January 1998

• Its Own Dark Styx · 20 March 1997

  • The Nature of Blood by Caryl Phillips

• Noonday Devils · 6 June 1996

  • Tituba Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies by Elaine Breslaw

• You must not ask · 4 January 1996

  • Lewis Carroll: A Biography by Morton Cohen
  • The Literary Products of the Lewis Carroll-George MacDonald Friendship by John Docherty

• Harmoniously Arranged Livers · 8 June 1995

  • The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity 200-1336 by Caroline Walker Bynum

• Diary · 25 May 1995

• Fierceness · 6 April 1995

  • Love’s Work by Gillian Rose

• Magic Zones · 8 December 1994

  • Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilisation by Richard Sennett

• What the children saw · 7 April 1994

  • Marpingen: Apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Bismarckian Germany by David Blackhourn

• The Virtue of Incest · 7 October 1993

  • Elizabeth’s Glass by Marc Shell

• Watch your tongue · 20 August 1992

  • Medieval Misogyny and the Invention of Western Romantic Love by Howard Bloch
  • Women of the Renaissance by Margaret King
  • The Lady as Saint: A Collection of French Hagiographical Romances of the 13th Century by Brigitte Cazelles
  • Heavenly Supper: The Story of Maria Janis by Fulvio Tomizza, translated by Anne Jacobson Shutte
  • Oppositional Voices: Women as Writers and Translators of Literature in the English Renaissance by Tina Krontiris

• That which is spoken · 8 November 1990

  • The Virago Book of Fairy-Tales edited by Angela Carter
  • Sisters and Strangers: A Moral Tale by Emma Tennant

• Baby Power · 6 July 1989

  • The Romantic Child: From Runge to Sendak by Robert Rosenblum
  • Caldecott & Co: Notes on Books and Pictures by Maurice Sendak
  • Dear Mili by Wilhelm Grimm, translated by Ralph Manheim and Maurice Sendak
  • Grimms’ Bad Girls and Bold Boys: The Moral and Social Vision of the ‘Tales’ by Ruth Bottigheimer
  • The one who set out to study fear by Peter Redgrove

• Villa Lampedusa · 5 January 1989

  • The Last Leopard: A Life of Giuseppe di Lampedusa by David Gilmour

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