Jeannette winterson

Reading Jeanette is like embarking on a poetic body-heart-mind journey trusting that there will be a destination. Even if none surfaces, there’s so much pleasure in the reading process because of her style that defies form and traditional plot lines. Quantum physics is thrown in, and there’s great joy finding Newton and Einstein decoded on […]

why be happy when you can be normal - jeannette winterson

Jeanette Winterson, Toronto, April 1990 BRITISH WRITER JEANETTE WINTERSON OBE HAD BEEN BUOYED ALONG BY SEVERAL LITERARY PRIZES by the time I photographed her in the back of a rock club on Queen street at the beginning of the '90s. I had not read any of her books at the time, but she had a stellar reputation; I still can't remember why I shot her here, and not in the usual spot for author portraits - a room in a good hotel, or an empty boardroom at the offices of her publisher. According to…

In the week that feminism was declared word of the year by a dictionary, writers including Margaret Atwood, Mary Beard, Naomi Klein, Kamila Shamsie, Jeanette Winterson and others champion the books that first empowered them

“I cannot recall a time when I did not know I was special,” writes Jeanette Winterson at the beginning of her fictionalized autobiography Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. And, indeed, the facts of her life have supported that view. Born in Manchester in 1959, Winterson was ad...

"It taught me that we don't have to live up to everyone's expectations of what a woman should be, and made me proud of women who are brave enough to reject the norms which pressure them to become what they're not and settle for less."Submitted by Tonia Berry, Facebook.

Why I Adore the Night - Jeanette Winterson

Stephanie Staal revisits the feminist classics and rediscovers new meaning in the pages of her favorite novels, including The Passion, a gender-bending, magical fairy tale of love and war set during the Napoleonic Wars.

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