Marina Benjamin
Senior Editor at Aeon
Unreconstructed feminist. Writer. Rocket Dreams. Last Days in Babylon. The Middlepause. Insomnia. Senior Editor @aeonmag. A Little Give out now
Articles
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Jan 4, 2025 |
ft.com | Marina Benjamin
I tried a yoga app for the first time recently, several years behind everyone else’s lockdown fervour.
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Oct 21, 2023 |
nexusnewsfeed.com | Marina Benjamin
The detection of alien life won’t be obvious. It’ll be partial and inconclusive: a perfect task for the scientific methodThe first images beamed back from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) were filled with jewels and fire. That’s what the galaxies look like, tiny and distant, resplendent in false-colour contrast: red, gold, and white-blue. Some stretched like gummy candies from gravitational lensing. Some radiated a six-point star, the signature artefact of JWST’s hexagonal mirrors.
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Oct 3, 2023 |
prospectmagazine.co.uk | Marina Benjamin
We are all interconnected, the thin membrane between us permeable, porous, liable to leaks, spills and cross-contamination. We are vulnerable to disease, but also open to love. These ideas sit at the heart of Jenn Shapland’s new collection of essays. Taken together, they’re a neat metaphor for how she’d like humankind to relate to the world—in a capacious, respectful, generous, inclusive fashion. She wants us to tread lightly as we go about our lives because the planet demands our care.
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Aug 9, 2023 |
spectator.com.au | Marina Benjamin
Anna Funder, the author of Stasiland, is a premier-league writer who can roll fiction, reportage, criticism and memoir into glinting prose, her sentences like handheld treasures you keep turning over, admiring their graceful contours and crafted precision. Lately she’s published little.
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Aug 8, 2023 |
spectator.co.uk | Marina Benjamin
Comments Anna Funder, the author of Stasiland, is a premier-league writer who can roll fiction, reportage, criticism and memoir into glinting prose, her sentences like handheld treasures you keep turning over, admiring their graceful contours and crafted precision. Lately she’s published little.
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Sam Mills has a lot to say about Oscar Wilde not being gay. https://t.co/QTApSugccF
Digital media just gives us the tools: we undo ourselves all by ourselves, we conspire in our own alienation. Josh Cohen is on top form here https://t.co/7PzGMX3MwL
Cracking essay from Josh Cohen on Byung Chul Han, the best least-known philosopher of our time. If you feel hollowed out by digital culture, read on. https://t.co/7PzGMX4kmj
