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Marina Warner has an international reputation as a critic, historian and a novelist. Her recent non-fiction works include The Beast to the Blonde, No Go the Bogeyman and Fantastic Metamorphoses, while her fiction includes the novels The Lost Father (shortlisted for the Booker Prize), Indigo and The Leto Bundle, and most recently a short-story collection Murderers I Have Known.
Any reader of a collection of essays must wonder whether to read them in order. Signs of subversion, too, are ever-present in Marina Warner's essays, challenging some of the received ideas and beliefs of history and now, along with their supporting imagery. For instance, to her, the dollar sign represents a physical gateway for opportunity as well as a favourable currency, the twin towers and weeping Madonna a means to a political end giving consolation and control. Warner has spent twenty-five years writing essays and what she continues to expose is the tension between history and story. What she tells us is that literature is prophetic and never immediate, while history is always a learning curve. So these are essays any reader must keep returning to for their particular slant of truth. (Kirkus UK)
