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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.
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Marina Benjamin
Detail from Mother and her Daughter by Henri-François Riesener 1767-1828. Private collection. Image courtesy Wikimedia
Marina Benjamin
La vie (1964) by Marc Chagall, La Fondation Maeght à Saint-Paul de Vence. Photo by Getty Images
Rubin Naiman
Photo by Jerome Sessini/Magnum Photos
Joanne Limburg
Community block party in the rain. Baltimore, 2018. Photo by Peter van Agtmael/Magnum
Robyn Autry
The Stephen sisters playing cricket in St Ives, Cornwall, England, c1893-94. Photo courtesy the Houghton Library, Harvard University
Lily Dunn
Wyoming, United States, 1954. Photo by Elliott Erwitt/Magnum Photos
Corina Stan
From Jerusalem The Emanation of the Giant Albion by William Blake, plate 53, printed in 1821. Courtesy the Yale Center for British Art
Mark Vernon
Pope Benedict XVI, despite rumours, did not wear Prada. ‘The pope, in summary, does not wear Prada, but Christ,’ said the official Vatican newspaper in 2008. Papal footwear has traditionally been red and is regarded as the colour of martyrdom. Photo by Giampiero Sposito/Reuters
Randy Laist
A facsimile of the Carta marina (1539) by Olaus Magnus. Photo courtesy Wikipedia
Surekha Davies
Aerial view of the Apollo 9 space vehicle on the way from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center. 3 January 1969. By 1966, NASA directly employed a staff of 36,000, with another 400,000 people working for 20,000 contractors and 200 universities in 80 countries. Photo courtesy NASA
Martin Parker
The Death of General Wolfe (1770) by Benjamin West. Wolfe was killed during the Battle of Quebec (1759) that decided the fate of French lands in North America. Courtesy the National Gallery of Canada/Wikipedia
Amanda Rees
A 3D-printed model of a protein nanoparticle, shown here in orange and white. Scientists at the University of Washington are using protein design to create candidate nanoparticle vaccines. Photo by Ian C Haydon/Institute for Protein Design
Sonia Contera
The artist Francis Bacon’s studio, relocated piece by piece to the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin. Photo courtesy Wikipedia
Jyoti Mishra
Resting in peace: Montaigne’s cenotaph in Bordeaux. His remains got lost over the years though one assumes he would have taken a philosophical view of such a loss. Photo by Mehdi Fedouach/Afp/Getty
Dorian Rolston
Poster advertising the 1948 Superman series. Photo courtesy Getty Images
Iwan Rhys Morus
Five O’Clock. Plate VII from the series Intimacies (1898), by Félix Edouard Vallotton. Courtesy the Art Institute of Chicago
Lily Dunn
At the World Chess Championships in London, 2013. Photo by Andrew Testa/Panos
Jonathan Rowson
Photo by Cavan Images/Getty
Elitsa Dermendzhiyska
Photo by Christopher Capozziello from his book The Distance Between Us, exploring the life of his brother Nick, their differences, and the anger and shame of being the healthy twin. Nick has cerebral palsy.
Rahila Gupta
Ethiopian Orthodox Christians pray on the last day of ‘Abiy Tsom’, fifty-five days of fasting ahead of Easter, at Medhane Alem Cathedral in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on 7 April 2018. Photo by Minasse Wondimu Hailu/Anadolu Agency/Getty
Mark Vernon
Photo by David Pollack/Corbis/Getty
Cody Delistraty
Daguerrotype of Charles Darwin with his eldest son William in 1842. Photo courtesy Cambridge University Library/Wikipedia
Michael Ruse
Photo by Nicole Honeywill/Unsplash
Sarah Stein Lubrano
Subway, New York, 1980. Photo by Bruce Davidson/Magnum
Enuma Okoro
Marlon Brando and Eva Marie Saint in On the Waterfront (1954). Photo by Corbis via Getty
Kevin Mitchell
Study in Orange (1904), by René Le Bègue. Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1933. Courtesy the MET Museum, New York
Jamie Mackay