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Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition
Notes on Craft
Aidan Cottrell-Boyce
‘The whole episode is a miracle and much of the miracle is in the muscles of Carmela’s face.’
Aidan Cottrell-Boyce on craft, nuance and The Sopranos.
Poetry|The Online Edition
Two Poems
Tim Liardet
‘Head up, / head down, it strolled ever so slowly out of the frame / with the suggestion of a limp. Extinct as an umbrella.’ Poetry by Tim Liardet.
Fiction|The Online Edition
I Won’t Let You Go
Hiromi Kawakami
Translated by Allison Markin Powell
‘I have no idea why I felt so drawn to the mermaid, but the pull was irresistible.’ Fiction by Hiromi Kawakami, translated by Allison Markin Powell.
Fiction|The Online Edition
Dazzling
Chịkọdịlị Emelụmadụ
‘I saw it all. Nobody here gives children ear, so I saw everything just by being quiet and doing like I dinor see.’ An extract from Dazzling by Chịkọdịlị Emelụmadụ.
Fiction|The Online Edition
What You Need From the Night
Laurent Petitmangin
Translated by Shaun Whiteside
‘Fus was twenty-five, he wasn’t a kid. What was he doing hanging out with fascists?’ An excerpt from What You Need From the Night. Translated from the French by Shaun Whiteside.
Top Reads 2022 | Essays
Our ten most popular non-fiction posts from the year with writing by Katherine Rundell, Fatima Bhutto, Lindsey Hilsum and Jason Allen-Paisant.
Top Reads 2022 | Poetry
Our ten most popular poetry posts from the year, with work by Ocean Vuong, Emily Berry, Victoria Adukwei Bulley and Akwaeke Emezi.
Top Reads 2022 | Fiction
Our ten most popular fiction posts of the year, with stories by Adachioma Ezeano, Lauren Groff, Emily Adrian and Julia Armfield.
Granta 161: Sister, Brother
Psychoanalysis famously privileges the vertical relationship between a child (the patient) and their parents over the seemingly equal and unproblematic horizontal connections between siblings. This issue of Granta tells a different story – one of chaotic hierarchies, zero-sum games of competition alternating with tenderness, lifelong relationships that nevertheless can sometimes break.
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’.
Highlights From Granta Books
From the Archive
An Evening of Martyrdom
Golnoosh Nour
New fiction from Golnoosh Nour’s debut collection about the lives of young, queer Iranians.
Recommended Reading
On Sizewell C
William Atkins
‘Where do we go, as a country, for power?’
William Atkins on the proposed nuclear power station in Suffolk.
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.
Small Girl Landlady
Adachioma Ezeano
‘Trouble was awake – we didn’t need anyone to tell us.’
New fiction by Adachioma Ezeano.
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
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed and Wars of the Interior Shortlisted for the Premio Valle Inclán
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enriquez and Wars of the Interior by Joseph Zárate are shortlisted for the Premio Valle Inclán prize, which celebrates translations into English from Spanish.
Nick Laird Wins Forward Prize for Best Single Poem
Nick Laird has won the 2022 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem for his elegy ‘Up Late’, first published in Granta 156.
Stephanie Sy-Quia Wins Forward Prize
Stephanie Sy-Quia’s Amnion is the winner of the Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection at the 2022 Forward Prizes.