An author hikes the trail to Oregon—and psychic peace.

To read Jeanette Winterson is to love her. Best known as the author of such provocative novels as Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and Sexing the Cherry, the fierce, curious, brilliant British writer is winningly candid in her memoir, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

A shocking—and riveting—picture of life in modern India.

After her marriage of 26 years fell apart, Olds wrote a book of poems that reads like a novel.