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Become a Friend for $5 a monthMarina is a senior editor at Aeon. She 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. Following on from her widely acclaimed midlife memoir, The Middlepause (2016), Marina's new autobiographical work, Insomnia, will be published later in 2018. She can be found on Twitter @marinab52.
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