British author Jeanette Winterson grew up in poverty, with few books and even fewer prospects for escape from the small industrial town where she was raised. In her new memoir, Why Be Happy When You ...
On a run-down world, the buzz is of a new, pristine blue planet, like Earth as it was 65 million years ago. Who will be allowed to go, and will the arrivals treat this planet any better? This is the ...
Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. Jeanette Winterson’s sentences become lodged in the brain for years, like song lyrics. “I’m telling ...
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