Jeanette Winterson in her haunted 18th-century house. Photograph: Kate Peters

Jeanette Winterson: ‘I’d like to go up in space as a very old lady and just be pushed out’

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The Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit author on being a good landlord to a grumpy ghost, her optimism about AI and the ideal size for cats

Sian Cain

Saturday 26 April 2025

Your debut novel Oranges are Not the Only Fruit turns 40 years old this year. How do you feel about it at this point in your life?

Can you believe it? I find that astonishing. I’m always having to think about it because people keep bothering me about it! Its next iteration is a musical, and then I really hope that’s the end. Just let me go! Obviously I love Oranges and I revisited it again with [her 2011 memoir] Why Be Happy When You Could be Normal? and the musical too. Surely, by the rule of three, this is it? Then I can live in peace and plant potatoes.

Life and style / Jeanett Winterson

Jeanette Winterson

Interview

Q&A: Jeanette Winterson

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Rosanna Greenstreet

'How do I relax? Running. Sex. (But I hate sex on the run)'

Saturday 5 December 2009

Jeanette Winterson, 50, was brought up by adoptive parents in Accrington. At 23, she wrote Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, which won a Whitbread award, and later adapted it for a BBC series that won three Baftas. In 2006, she was given an OBE for services to literature. Her latest book is a children's story, The Lion, The Unicorn And Me: The Donkey's Christmas Story. She lives in Gloucestershire and London.

Péter Nádas by Davis Kovacs

Péter Nádas
Photo by Miriam Berkley.

Interview

Péter Nádas 

by Davis Kovacs

JULY 1, 2007

Péter Nádas is Hungary’s leading contemporary writer. A scholar not only of literature, but of culture, horticulture, and above all the human body and its communications, Nádas presents a picture of temperament and elegance in the great tradition of the European intellectual. He has often been compared, perhaps syntactically, to the high realists Robert Musil and Marcel Proust. Susan Sontag, one of Nádas’s earliest and most vocal champions, compares his plays to the “encounter-dramas of Pina Bausch” and the “declamatory plays of Thomas Bernhard.” I myself see him, in many ways, as the Thomas Mann of our times. 

Madonna Interview

 

Madonna wears Jacket, Top, and Skirt Gucci. Earrings 4element. Ring Boucheron. Model on left: Suit, Shirt, Tie, Hat, and Shoes National Theater. Model in middle: Suit and Tie Rokit. Shirt Ralph Lauren. Pens Montblanc. Model on right: Suit National Theater. Sweater Celine. Glasses General Eyewear. Shoes John Lobb.

Madonna Interview

By Mel Ottenberg

Photographed by Nadia Lee Cohen

Styled by Mel Ottenberg

June 22, 2026

MADONNA! INTERVIEW! 2026! This is Madonna’s eleventh time on the cover of this magazine—more than any other star. HERSTORY! We shot these images late at night on the outskirts of London. Madonna named her shoot’s character Dee Dee, a fun, hard-living broad who drank prosecco, did her hair big, and blasted the Stones ’til we got kicked out. There were moments that night when I felt star power on a level I had never experienced before, if that is possible… The next afternoon, I went to M’s home for round two: a 90-minute gab sesh after hearing the upcoming album, Confessions on a Dance Floor: Part II. As a Frida Kahlo portrait glared protectively at me over Madonna’s shoulder, we talked past, present, future, prayer, dicks, nutritional yeast, and more…

THURSDAY 7 PM APRIL 9, 2026 LONDON