New Writing on Granta.com
Poetry|The Online Edition
Three Poems
Jana Prikryl
‘I struggled to put this into words as strong as my conviction, so what advice could I give you I said’ Two poems by Jana Prikyl.
Fiction|The Online Edition
The Colony
Audrey Magee
‘Imagine that, said Mairéad. A Frenchman and an Englishman squabbling over our turf.’ A linguist and a painter clash in this excerpt from The Colony by Audrey Magee.
Fiction|The Online Edition
In a Jar
Morgan Talty
‘It was a glass jar filled with hair and corn and teeth. The teeth were white with a tint of yellow at the root.’ A story by Morgan Talty.
Fiction|The Online Edition
Nights at the Hotel Splendido
Sam Munson
‘Everybody’s face looks different at night, especially outside. You see their real faces.’ A new story by Sam Munson.
Fiction|The Online Edition
From Another World
Evelina Santangelo
Translated by Ruth Clarke
An excerpt from the novel From Another World.
Granta 157: Should We Have Stayed at Home? New Travel Writing
In 1984, Granta published its first issue devoted to travel writing. Nearly forty years after that genre-defining volume, a new generation of writers from around the globe offers a new vision of what travel writing can be.
From Antarctica and the deserts of the US-Mexico border, to a Siberian whale-killing station and the alleyways of Taipei, these dispatches describe a world in perpetual motion (even when it is ‘locked-down’). To travel, we are reminded, is to embrace the experience of being a stranger – to acknowledge that one person’s frontier is another’s home.
Granta 157 is guest-edited by award-winning travel writer William Atkins.
Sleeping Beauty
Laura Demers
‘It’s normal not to be offered anything to eat or drink when you are a princess.’
Highlights From Granta Books
Recommended Reading
Mr Brown, Mrs White and Ms Black
Kei Miller
‘Yes, Ms Black. Mrs White and Mr Brown have arrived.’
An new essay by poet Kei Miller, from his forthcoming collection.
The Coming Bad Days
Sarah Bernstein
‘I began to appreciate being amongst things that were mine only. I cleaned with a puritanical zeal.’
An excerpt from Sarah Bernstein’s debut novel, The Coming Bad Days.
Second Place
Rachel Cusk
‘I stepped around as joyfully as a faun in a forest on the first day of creation.’
An excerpt from Rachel Cusk’s new novel.
When Denmark Criminalised Kindness
Lisbeth Zornig Andersen
‘We now know that it is a criminal offence to help refugees in distress.’
Arts House
Pebbles
Max Porter
A new story by Max Porter – part of our series in partnership with The Arts House, Singapore.
Pourquoi avec son Père?
Jeet Thayil
‘To read Baudelaire, he said, is to gather up the world and bring it inside.’
Jeet Thayil on remembering Baudelaire in Paris and Cochin.
Some Trouble
Sharlene Teo
Sharlene Teo on getting in trouble – part of a new series, in partnership with The Arts House, Singapore.
News, Prizes and Events
Legacy Russell and Claire Luchette selected for 2022 Best of the Net Anthology
‘Roses’ by Legacy Russell and ‘Upper Extremity’ by Claire Luchette have been selected for the 2022 Best of the Net Anthology.
Chris Dennis on Ghislaine Maxwell Wins a Sidney Award
‘A Series of Rooms Occupied by Ghislaine Maxwell’ by Chris Dennis has won a 2021 Sidney Award.
The Language of Thieves Longlisted for Wingate Literary Prize
The Language of Thieves by Martin Puchner has been longlisted for the Wingate Literary Prize - the UK's major award for books of Jewish interest.
