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In Conversation | The Online Edition
Joshua Cohen | Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists
Joshua Cohen & Luke Neima
‘The fact that you exist means that you have a story that's worth telling’
Poetry | The Online Edition
Two Poems
Momtaza Mehri
‘Rub my scalp and tell me who I could have been. / Feed me a morsel or two.’
Two poems by Momtaza Mehri.
In Conversation | The Online Edition
In Conversation
Tom Bullough & Ben Rawlence
‘People may not want realism but it’s still our job to try and supply it in compelling and truthful ways.’
Tom Bullough and Ben Rawlence on writing into the climate crisis.
Fiction | The Online Edition
Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping
Derek Jarman & Declan Wiffen
‘Owing to lack of interest, tomorrow has been cancelled, you are now in the strawberry beds of the eternal present.’
Unpublished fiction by the late Derek Jarman.
Essays & Memoir | Issue 153
Water Is Never Lonely
Judith D. Schwartz
‘This water isn’t irredeemably lost, after all. It has merely been waiting for companionship.’
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Notes on Craft
Naoise Dolan
‘If something is usually done in novels, but I can’t actively justify doing it, then I don’t do it.’
Fiction | The Online Edition
Exciting Times
Naoise Dolan
‘There was something Shakespearean about imperious men going down on you: the mighty have fallen.’
Naoise Dolan’s Exciting Times is shortlisted for the 2020 Young Writer of the Year Award.
Art & Photography | Issue 150
An Instrument of Pure Motion
Tommi Parrish
‘They say they are too busy but actually they are too busy for you.’
A story by graphic novelist Tommi Parrish.
Essays & Memoir | Issue 150
Surrender
Joanna Pocock
‘How could having sex with the Earth ever be consensual?’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 15
The Fall of Saigon
James Fenton
‘I wanted to see a communist victory, which I presumed to be inevitable. I wanted to see the fall of a city.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 27
Glitches
John Gregory Dunne
‘I prefer not to speculate about what might have happened if I had not taken the ECG.’
First Sentence | Issue 27
Notebooks
Amitava Kumar
‘I wanted sex as my subject, not only the innocence but also the bruising.’
Fiction | Issue 27
Jennifer
Amitava Kumar
‘I was overcome by a feeling that took root then and has never left me, the feeling that in this land that was someone else’s country, I did not have a place to stand.’
In Conversation | Issue 27
Katharine Kilalea and Emily Berry In Conversation
Katharine Kilalea & Emily Berry
Katharine Kilalea and Emily Berry discuss architecture, psychoanalysis and the different types of exposure that come with writing prose and poetry.
Essays & Memoir | Issue 27
Who Killed Tolstoy?
Elif Batuman
‘I walked along the birch-lined alleys of Yasnaya Polyana, looking for clues. Snakes were swimming in the pond, making a rippling pattern. Everything here was a museum.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 27
Ten Books that Changed the World
Martin Puchner
Martin Puchner on ten books that have changed the course of world history.
Essays & Memoir | Issue 27
I Am Lying
Miranda Doyle
‘Findings show that the bigger the brain, the more frequent the deceit.’ Miranda Doyle on why we lie.
Fiction | Issue 27
The Secular World
Nadeem Aslam
‘There is no lack of talent in this country. All we lack is decent leaders.’ Pakistan’s secular world runs against fundamentalism in Nadeem Aslam’s latest novel, The Golden Legend.
Essays & Memoir | Issue 27
The Fairytale
Jennifer Kabat
‘In Hollin Hills, we believed our flatware could change the world.’ Jennifer Kabat on the intersection of modernist architecture and espionage.
Essays & Memoir | Issue 27
The Fencing Master
David Treuer
David Treuer on learning to fence with Maître Michel Sebastiani and learning to write with Toni Morrison.
Essays & Memoir | Issue 27
The Fixer
Snigdha Poonam
‘In Indian media and advertising, young people are mainly being projected as vessels of breathless aspiration.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 124
A Rationalist in the Jungle
Héctor Abad
‘A pale-faced, near-sighted urbanite like me is nothing less than handicapped in the heart of the jungle.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 124
Barrenland
A Yi
‘I no longer feared that she would entrap me; my heart would not soften.’
Art & Photography | Issue 89
In the Milk Factory
Joe Sacco
'In October 2002 I travelled to the Russian Republic of Ingushetia to see how the people who had fled were faring.'