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Common Cyborg

Common Cyborg

Jillian Weise

Danez Smith and Kaveh Akbar In Conversation

Danez Smith and Kaveh Akbar In Conversation

Danez Smith & Kaveh Akbar

Breasts: A History

Breasts: A History

Krys Malcolm Belc

Three poems

Three poems

Mary Ruefle

Now, Now, Louison

Now, Now, Louison

Jean Frémon

Of Donuts I Have Loved

Miranda Dennis on the comfort of junk

Parfait

A story about the end of an affair by Hiromi Kawakami, translated from the Japanese by Allison Markin Powell.

After

‘I again told him I wasn’t ready to have sex, and his only response was to lean in and kiss me.’ – April Ayers Lawson

A Few Words about Fake Breasts

Nell Boeschenstein on the fraught discourse around post-mastectomy reconstruction

In Conversation: Will Ashon and Greg Milner

Will Ashon and Greg Milner, authors of books on the Wu-Tang Clan and recording technology, discuss audiophilia and music making.

A Summer of Japanese Literature

Translator Dan Bradley shares his ten favourite works of Japanese literature.

When Poets Write Novels

Caoilinn Hughes on the ten best novels written by poets

The Sweet Sop

Ingrid Persaud

‘The memory of chocolate made the man crazy to see me. I became Reggie’s dealer. A voice on the phone would whisper, ‘Two Kit Kat’ and hang up.’

Forward Prizes for Poetry

crown

Danez Smith

‘the boy claps me between / his hands & i break apart like glitter’

The Republic of Motherhood

Liz Berry

‘a cardigan / soft as a creature, smelling of birth and milk’ – New poetry from Liz Berry.

Zeus

Fiona Benson

‘days I talked with Zeus / I ate only ice / felt the blood trouble and burn / under my skin’

Danez Smith and Kaveh Akbar In Conversation

Danez Smith & Kaveh Akbar

Danez Smith and Kaveh Akbar share sublime food experiences, discuss their latest collections and ask one another how best to bring community into poetry.

Assuming the Habits of the Day and Night

Vahni Capildeo

‘my every day is a being in of being / a mixity of worlds’

Sarah Moss, author of the Ghost Wall, on her False Starts

Sarah Moss on making first drafts like a dressmaker makes maquettes, the notes that precede every project, and importance of reading.

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Editing Vidia

Diana Athill

‘Good publishers are supposed “discover” writers, and perhaps they do. To me, however, they just happened to come’ – Diana Athill on Editing V.S. Naipaul.

Night

Alice Munro

‘I read books as usual, nobody knew there was a thing the matter with me.’

Human Moments in World War III

Don DeLillo

‘Happiness is not a fact of this experience, at least not to the extent that one is bold enough to speak of it.’

Cousins

Angela Carter

‘The people who live in its shadow have no relation to the mountain itself’

Fellow Workers

Mary McCarthy

‘If it had not been for me, he would never have been in Mexico.’

The Latest from Granta Books

Days of Awe

A.M. Homes

‘He is the War Correspondent, she is the Transgressive Novelist. They have been flown in for the summit on Genocide(S).’

Painter to the King

Amy Sackville

‘There are many facets to being a king; and yet all edges must appear burnished to a perfect smooth orb, shining at the centre of his empire.’ An extract from Painter to the King by Amy Sackville.

West

Carys Davies

‘All I can say is that the only thing in the world I want to do now, is to go out there, into the west, and find them.’

Authors

Paul Dalla Rosa | Notes on Craft

Paul Dalla Rosa

‘I feel like I’m haunting an empty building, inert, waiting for each room to burst into flames.’

The Editor’s Chair: On Christine Montalbetti

Alex Andriesse

‘For Montalbetti to have achieved this syntactic ease in French is a feat. For the translator to reproduce it in English requires the capacities of a medium.’

Danny Denton | Notes on Craft

Danny Denton

‘My tuppence on craft is this: as a writer, you must give your reader space to experience the world of your story (whatever form it takes)’

Cynthia Ozick | First Sentence

Cynthia Ozick

‘Some stories begin with an incident, or a set of enigmatic circumstances, or a scene indelibly witnessed, or the relationship of unlike temperaments, or even something as gossamer as a mood. And then there is the kind of story that is rooted in an idea.’

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