New Writing on Granta.com
Podcasts|The Online Edition
Podcast | Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
‘Places don’t always remember what they are.’
Ayanna Lloyd Banwo talks about her novel When We Were Birds.
Fiction|The Online Edition
Close to Home
Michael Magee
‘I thought about how I had tricked everyone into thinking I was hard, that I could handle myself, without ever having to throw a punch.’
An extract from Close to Home by Michael Magee.
Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition
Beyond Deep Throat | Part II
Saskia Vogel
‘Whatever porn is or is not, like dance it is rooted in the body.’ Saskia Vogel on the relationship between dance and pornography.
Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition
Sartorial Misdirection
Rosie Findlay
‘In clothes, I met strangeness with strangeness. They dressed me with a kind of distanced power.’ Rosie Findlay on fashion and religion.
Fiction|The Online Edition
Animals After Dark
Avigayl Sharp
‘In terms of personality, I was obviously infantile, paranoid, obsessed with authority.’ Fiction by Avigayl Sharp.
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.
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.
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.
Coming Soon - April 2023
Constructing a Nervous System
Margo Jefferson
Winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize Book of the Year
In this intimate and innovative memoir, Pulitzer prize-winning author Margo Jefferson gives us her own personal and intellectual formation.
From Josephine Baker’s radiant transformations, to Willa Cather’s aesthetics of whiteness, Jefferson shows us how we can find space in cultures that will not make room for us, and how, even in times of stricture, we might learn to construct ourselves.
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
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.
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.
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.
