Author of ACCIDENTAL GODS: On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine (@MetropolitanBks/@GrantaBooks). Senior editor @Bidoun.
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My book about men unwittingly turned divine—and what the man-gods teach us of empire, whiteness, and the relationship between politics & myth—lands on earth today from Granta. ⚡️
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“In Warner’s work, new technologies do not dispel but verify enchantment, confirming the presence, ever around us, of an unseen world.”
@annadella from a talk delivered at the conference Enchanting Wor(l)ds: The Works of Marina Warner.
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“Over the past four decades, Dunya Mikhail has written of Iraq, its histories of invasion and loss, and the experience of exile in a voice so disarmingly direct it seems to become oracular.” —@annadella go.nybooks.com/3H1yEI0
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“Dunya Mikhail has long been building a dictionary of symbols—the shell, the flower, the stars—that recur across her books. In Tablets she takes the logical next step and creates her own cuneiform.” —@annadella go.nybooks.com/4jaO0az
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Anna Della Subin (@annadella) on the Iraqi American poet Dunya Mikhail go.nybooks.com/3S8Bz3Z
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 nybooks.com/articles/2025/05…
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... @LRB lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-video…
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. lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-video…
We look at the relationship for Calvino between the fantastic and his anti-fascist politics, and in contemplating his incantatory last line, at how the literature of the imagination opens up portals. “An opportunity for escape exists," Calvino wrote elsewhere...
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Ann Volkes, who passed away last month, was a FORCE in early women’s video. A videomaker and installation artist, she was a key collaborator in organizing the Women’s Video Festival & other activities at the Women’s Interart Center and The Kitchen in NYC. loom.ly/5VmS-4A
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... lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-video… @LRB
Topics may include! analysis of disgusting treasures; reverse creation myths; Gulliver as Grildrig or "girl-thing"; expulsion from paradise; the abjection of immortality; fantasy and misanthropy (we are stuck with ourselves, so how do we live?)
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... lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-video… @LRB
The first episode is out today, on THE THOUSAND & ONE NIGHTS, a text that takes place in the blurred space between night & day, dream & awakening, life against death. We read from two poetic, beguiling scenes from Yasmine Seale's new translation.