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Essays & Memoir | Issue 162

Many Words for Heat, Many Words for Hate

Amitava Kumar

‘In Delhi the heat is chemical, something unworldly, a dry bandage or heating pad wrapped around the body.’

Memoir by Amitava Kumar.

Fiction | The Online Edition

Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists

‘The issue was the first of its kind. Trust me, it said. I know what I am talking about. These young writers are the future of literature. Watch. History will prove me right.’

A history of the list, with reflections from Bill Buford and other editors.

Essays & Memoir | Issue 162

The Antigua Journals (What Is a Homeland)

Chanelle Benz

‘I am used to not belonging; it is, you could say, my brand.’

Chanelle Benz on reuniting with her father in Antigua.

In Conversation | The Online Edition

Interview

Daisy Lafarge

‘The earliest life on the planet was life without air, anaerobic bacteria that slowly died off when oxygen began to pollute the atmosphere’.

In Conversation | The Online Edition

Interview

Teju Cole

‘What is this elsewhere that one is longing to be in? Part of the answer to this question, for me, is Switzerland.’

Highlights From Granta Books

From the Archive

Fiction | The Online Edition

An Evening of Martyrdom

Golnoosh Nour

New fiction from Golnoosh Nour’s debut collection about the lives of young, queer Iranians.

Fiction | Issue 56

Nadine at Forty

Hilary Mantel

‘Each day we re-enact, on ourselves, what was done to us.’

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Normalnost

Peter Pomerantsev

‘Is there another way to look at the Russianisation of reality?’

Recommended Reading

Essays & Memoir | Issue 159

On Sizewell C

William Atkins

‘Where do we go, as a country, for power?’

William Atkins on the proposed nuclear power station in Suffolk.

Fiction | The Online Edition

Nancy’s Victory

Diane Williams

‘She saw a small swatch of pink and supposed a sunset was out there and thought, What can that knockout pink do for me?’

New fiction by Diane Williams.

Fiction | The Online Edition

Small Girl Landlady

Adachioma Ezeano

‘Trouble was awake – we didn’t need anyone to tell us.’

New fiction by Adachioma Ezeano.

Fiction | The Online Edition

The Blake Fellowship

Timothy Ogene

‘They call it POC here, you know, People of Colour.’

An excerpt from Timothy Ogene’s satire, Seesaw.

News, Prizes and Events

Prize

Constructing a Nervous System Wins the Rathbones Folio Prize

Constructing a Nervous System by Margo Jefferson is the overall and non-fiction category winner of this year's Rathbones Folio Prize.

Prize

I’m A Fan Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize

I'm A Fan by Sheena Patel is on the shortlist for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023.

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Heritage Aesthetics Longlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award

Heritage Aesthetics by Anthony Anaxagorou has been longlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award, which celebrates literature about Greece.