New Writing on Granta.com
Fiction|The Online Edition
Ways of Knowing
Lauren Wallach
‘Maybe I was born with this face the way moths are born with the ability to blend in with bark, to survive.’
In Conversation|The Online Edition
In Conversation
Sophie Collins & Will Harris
‘I’ve been dreaming wildly in lockdown. Have you?’
Fiction|The Online Edition
Faith
Sayaka Murata
Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori
‘Hey, Nagaoka, wanna start a new cult with me?’
New fiction by Sayaka Murata, translated from the Japanese by Ginny Tapley Takemori.
In Conversation|The Online Edition
Interview
Lynne Tillman
‘Things that we love, things that we hate – we need to crack it open.’
Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition
Kōbō Abe
Thomas McMullan
‘Against the immensity of things, look at what you can grasp, he seems to say. Grasp it tightly.’
Thomas McMullan on the writing of Kōbō Abe.
Podcast | Caleb Klaces
Caleb Klaces
‘I think the infrastructure of community around fathering is very limited.’
We discuss Caleb Klaces’s debut novel, Fatherhood.
Cheating
Ahmet Altan
‘I get into the police car with four officers from the Anti-Terrorism Branch. They are taking me to the prison.’
Granta 152: Still Life
‘After so many years of feeling that some Event was due, that something vast must surely happen, something vast happened. Is happening.’ from ‘Spring’ by China Miéville.
This issue reflects on confinement, escape and paying attention, as writers and artists respond to the pandemic.
Shame
Mieko Kawakami
‘During sex, Narumi would picture herself as steamed rice being turned into mochi rice cakes.’
Paris Desert, Tokyo Mirage
Hitomi Kanehara
‘What I thought was the world yesterday, today I couldn’t even touch its outline.’
Two essays by Hitomi Kanehara.
Highlights From Granta Books
Recommended Reading
Three Poems
Hannah Regel
‘It makes no difference / If the devil has been defeated or if it is your character’
Three Poems
Vivek Narayanan
‘half-sunk / into ground for all those years / of negative subsistence’
News, Prizes and Events
Launch of Granta 153: Second Nature
Granta magazine invites you to a reading from our autumn issue, Granta 153: Second Nature, guest-edited by Isabella Tree. Register to attend the Zoom launch on 19 November.
Souvankham Thammavongsa Wins 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize
The title story of Souvankham Thammavongsa’s winning collection How to Pronounce Knife was first published in Granta 141: Canada.
Jenny Offill shortlisted for the Books Are My Bag Readers Awards 2020
Weather by Jenny Offill has been selected by booksellers for the shortlist of the Books Are My Bag Readers Awards.
