Marina Warner, Anna Della Subin, Adam Thirlwell and Chloe Aridjis traverse the great parallel tradition of the literature of astonishment and wonder, dread and hope, from the 1001 Nights to Ursula K. Le Guin.

Marina Warner is a writer of history, fiction and criticism whose many books include Stranger Magic, Forms of Enchantment and Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale. She was awarded the Holberg Prize in 2015 and is a contributing editor at the LRB.

Texts include:

The Thousand and One Nights

Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels

The Travels of Marco Polo

Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass

The stories of Franz Kafka

James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner: Written by Himself

Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones

Leonora Carrington, The Hearing Trumpet

and works by Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard and Ursula K. Le Guin

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