Our foremost theorist of myth, fairytale, and folktale explores the magical realm of the imagination where carpets fly and genies grant prophetic wishes. Stranger Magic examines the profound impact of…

Since the early 1970s, when Marina Warner reported from Vietnam and America, in startling essays, she has been one of the most challenging and profound commentators on the culture. This…

Gathers together a collection of fairy tales by some of the great women storytellers of the 17th and 18th centuries who used the fairy tale genre to comment on their…

Inspired by The Tempest , the novelist rewrites the drama of Ariel, Caliban and Sycorax in a Caribbean setting, exploring the colonial conflicts of an imaginary island and one family…

A wide-ranging study of the influential British novelist and public intellectual writer Marina Warner and the ways she negotiates the dangers of appropriating voices through narrative, examining her writing from…

Collection of fairy tales, poems, and ballads.

Presents the story of a nightmare voyage to the South Pole told by the sole survivor, the bright-eyed ancient mariner whose wanton killing of an albatross, a bird of good…

One of contemporary arts most provocative and profound figures, British artist Helen Chadwick was celebrated for her controversial feminist installations. Her death in 1996 cut short a brilliant career, but…