Marina is a former arts editor of the New Statesman magazine and deputy arts editor of the Evening Standard newspaper in London. Among her books, Living at the End of the World looked at modern end-time cults, Rocket Dreams offered an off-beat elegy to the Space Age, and Last Days in Babylon told the story of the Jews of Iraq. Marina specialises in the culture of science, developmental psychology and strong personal narratives. In the last few years she has written two memoirs: The Middlepause and Insomnia, and both are available in the US, UK and Australia, as well as in translation. She can be found on Twitter @marinab52.
Artists and movements
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The vibrating beingness of Seurat’s pointillist paintings
by Summer Brennan
Eating disorders
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When fear grew in my stomach, I starved myself just to survive
by Nataliya Deleva
Poetry
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Emily Dickinson and the creative ‘solitude of space’
by Magdalena Ostas
Stories and literature
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On the pleasures of hand-writing letters you’ll never send
by Anandi Mishra
The body and physical health
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I chose to go flat after breast cancer surgery. I have no regrets
by Sarah Cretch
Communication
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The pleasure in not understanding a language can be awesome
by Keith Kahn-Harris
Photography
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Victorian hidden mothers and the continued erasure of mothering
by Andrea Kaston Tange
Poetry
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How poetry casts a spell through the rhythmic magic of metre
by Annie Finch
Therapeutic relationships
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Psychodynamic therapy helped me overcome trauma when CBT couldn’t
by Lucia Osborne-Crowley
Poetry
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Sufi love poetry is in vogue, but few grasp its radical meaning
by Matthew Thomas Miller
Rituals and symbols
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In the cinema, my father’s unspeakable childhood finally surfaced
by Christiana Spens
Sports and games
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Why do hardcore football fans behave like rutting stags?
by Martha Newson