Marina Warner is a renowned novelist and cultural critic. She has co-curated the major exhibition on the theme of Metamorphosis at Londons Science Museum.
Memories at risk! cries a poster for digital cameras. The ad means to say that unless you take photographs, the parties, the family gathering, the children growing up, life itself,
I first met Edward Said when the BBC asked us to give the Reith Lectures in successive years and held a press reception to announce the forthcoming series. He was
All extracts from From the Beast to the Blonde by kind permission of the author.
The body reveals to us through hair the passage of time and the fluctuating claims
The theme of apology is in the air: governments are saying it to former colonial subjects, or to political prisoners in post-dictatorships; former terrorists to their targets; banks and businesses
In which the archetypal figure of human heroic suffering meets the persecuted eternal feminine. Before history invented public apology, was there any solace?
The heifer Io guarded by Argos, on
In which, in the moment of confession, two figures emerge: the apologist and human self-portraiture. From the very beginning self-scrutiny is a danger zone.
St Augustine by Sandro Botticelli
In
In which forgiveness, and human recognition work their magic. But how well, and for how long? Maybe, nothing short of revolution will do?
Again, we skip on several centuries from
In which many kinds of truth and reconciliation, are investigated. Sometimes only a deep pychic process can effect healing. Where does the personal end and the political begin?
Red Dust
In which apology comes to play a necessary part in our modern world, contributing to the revisioning of national history and the shaping of group identities. But do we fully