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Marina Gerner, freelance feature writer & critic

Read a selection of features, columns and reviews:

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Financial Times: How to create a golden age

Posted on March 9, 2022 by marinagerner

What makes a genius? Since at least the 19th century, some have said it is down to genetics, while others… Read more Financial Times: How to create a golden age

Standpoint Magazine: Viennese rooms with a point of view

Posted on March 9, 2022 by marinagerner

“Austria comes alive on my divan,” said Berta Zuckerkandl, and this was an understatement. An influential journalist and art critic,… Read more Standpoint Magazine: Viennese rooms with a point of view

Wall Street Journal: In a Concentration Camp, Dreams of a Café

Posted on February 10, 2020February 10, 2020 by marinagerner

Jewish communities have suffered a spate of horrifying anti-Semitic attacks on both sides of the Atlantic. Yet survival has always… Read more Wall Street Journal: In a Concentration Camp, Dreams of a Café

Standpoint Magazine: Ironies of Ideology

Posted on January 25, 2020July 6, 2020 by marinagerner

On a recent visit to the Royal Academy, I noticed a tall, elegantly dressed man who spent quite some time… Read more Standpoint Magazine: Ironies of Ideology

First Things Magazine: Taking Art Off the Street – Museums are giving street art a home, but at what cost?

Posted on December 22, 2019February 17, 2020 by marinagerner

“Street art—you mean vandalism? No, thank you.” That was the response of a friend when I invited him to join… Read more First Things Magazine: Taking Art Off the Street – Museums are giving street art a home, but at what cost?

Times Literary Supplement: Whose London is it anyway?

Posted on December 20, 2019January 31, 2020 by marinagerner

Tucked away between office buildings by Euston station is where I found the Camden People’s Theatre. It’s a little place… Read more Times Literary Supplement: Whose London is it anyway?

Times Literary Supplement: Does philosophy have to be obscure?

Posted on December 10, 2019February 12, 2021 by marinagerner

I recently went to a public lecture at LSE hosted by the Forum for European Philosophy. The discussion was entitled… Read more Times Literary Supplement: Does philosophy have to be obscure?

Standpoint Magazine: Wholesome homes

Posted on October 24, 2019November 16, 2020 by marinagerner

One of the 20th century’s main advocates of high-rise tower blocks was the architect Ernő Goldfinger. To address the acute… Read more Standpoint Magazine: Wholesome homes

Jewish Chronicle: The Attack of the 50ft Women – Driving on equality street

Posted on July 28, 2017February 7, 2019 by marinagerner

At first glance, The Attack of the 50ft Women, by Catherine Mayer, looks like a sequel to Naomi Alderman’s Baileys… Read more Jewish Chronicle: The Attack of the 50ft Women – Driving on equality street

Times Literary Supplement: Book Review of Martha Nussbaum’s “Political Emotions”

Posted on February 26, 2014February 7, 2019 by marinagerner

“The public culture needs to be nourished and sustained by something that lies deep in the human heart and taps… Read more Times Literary Supplement: Book Review of Martha Nussbaum’s “Political Emotions”

Some poetry while you’re here

In a crowded London shop
An open book and empty cup
On the marble table-top.
While on the shop and street I gazed
My body of a sudden blazed;
And twenty minutes more or less It seemed, so great my happiness,
That I was blessed and could bless.

– W.B. Yeats

How dreary – to be – Sombody!
How public – like a Frog –
To tell one’s name – the livelong June –
To an admiring Bog!

– Emily Dickinson

At lunchtime I bought a huge orange—
The size of it made us all laugh.
I peeled it and shared it with Robert and Dave—
They got quarters and I had a half.

– Wendy Cope

Always to shine,
to shine everywhere,
to the very deeps of the last days,
to shine—
and to hell with everything else!
That is my motto—
and the sun’s!

– Vladimir Mayakovsky

Can it pull extraordinary faces?
Is it usually sick on a swing?
Does it spend all its time at the races,
or fiddling with pieces of string?
Has it views of its own about money?
Does it think patriotism enough?
Are its stories vulgar but funny?
O tell me the truth about love.

– WH Auden

I used to think all poets were Byronic-
Mad, bad and dangerous to know.
And then I met a few. Yes it’s ironic-
I used to think all poets were Byronic.
They’re mostly wicked as a ginless tonic
And wild as pension plans.

– Wendy Cope again

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