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“... Arianne Shahvisi, Sophie Smith, Rebecca Solnit, Alice Spawls, Amia Srinivasan, Chaohua Wang, Marina Warner, Bee Wilson, Emily Witt Elif BatumanWhen​ Roe v. Wade was overturned, I was finishing the tour for my new novel, Either/Or. It’s a sequel to my first novel, The Idiot. Both books are set during my own college years, in the mid-1990s: a ...”

“... the voice itself sounds so distinctive, so attractive, ‘clear as a bell’, in the apt phrase of Marina Warner, to whose Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism (1981), Sullivan, Gordon and DeVries all acknowledge debts, and which, for this reviewer, remains the best book on the subject. But the clarity can be deceptive. For the fact is that the record ...”

“... Eventually published in 1978, The Wise Wound was praised by reviewers as different as Marina Warner and Les Murray; insightful and often freewheelingly speculative, it ranges from menstruation and witchcraft to capitalist patriarchy and vampirism. It was recognised from the start as revolutionary and taboo-breaking. In the years leading up to ...”

“... there to entertain and mollify her daughters, on whom she depended for all sorts of things: ‘Marina Warner came to lecture at the Highgate Institute on Tues – embarrassing as the members had made a clean sweep of all the sandwiches and canapés by the time she got into the reading room.’ And it’s used defensively, to protect her ...”

“... and artistic prejudice. Among other ‘members of the art world’, the letter was signed by Marina Warner, Michael Craig-Martin, Christopher Frayling and George Melly, also several artists and dealers, and as with all round-robins it wasn’t perhaps the letter any one of them would have written individually. Still, as a tactic, it showed blessed ...”

“... for Virago from 1975. ‘You knew Angela Carter before she was Angela Carter,’ Frayling records Marina Warner saying to him in the memoir he has written about the Angela he knew in Bath. ‘I don’t actually think that is right. She was Angela Carter all right … She was already well into wings and swans and metamorphoses.’ So many of the friends ...”

“... prototypes aside, he essentially belongs in the tradition of the American cop, his true home a Warner Brothers movie. He’s not expected to answer awkward existential questions: but he has something, an integrity of his own, that only a hero empty of everything else seems to possess. The empty heroes of Hemingway and the earlier American crime novelists ...”