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You are a work in progress

Jeanette Winterson’s essayistic slivers
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January–February 2026, no. 483

One Aladdin Two Lamps by Jeanette Winterson

Jonathan Cape, $39.99 hb, 272 pp

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You are a work in progress

Jeanette Winterson’s essayistic slivers
by
January–February 2026, no. 483

One Thousand and One Nights begins with an ending in sight. Unless Shahrazad can keep her husband, the Sultan Shahryar, entertained with her stories, she will follow the virgins before her who marry him only to be beheaded in the morning. Shahrazad’s means of escaping this response to his first wife’s infidelity opens the heart of Jeanette Winterson’s new book about what stories can do and be: ‘magic words that get us into the treasure and out of danger’.

One Aladdin Two Lamps

One Aladdin Two Lamps

by Jeanette Winterson

Jonathan Cape, $39.99 hb, 272 pp

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ABR receives a commission on items purchased through this link. All ABR reviews are fully independent.

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