Marina Warner & James Butler: Sanctuary

Marina Warner discusses her recent book on the ancient right of sanctuary and its meaning in the modern world with James Butler.

Drawing on a lifetime’s engagement with myth, literature and history as well as on her work with young refugees in Sicily in the ‘Stories in Transit’ project, Marina Warner’s latest book Sanctuary (William Collins) explores the concept of hospitality, the cult of relics, shrines and festivals, the imagination of place, and travelling tales and asks profound questions about political ideas of a right to safety, home, freedom of movement, and peace.

Warner was in conversation with James Butler, contributing editor at the London Review of Books.