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Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition
Black and Female
Tsitsi Dangarembga
‘By the time I was in my teens, I had taken up an existence framed by a double negative: not male, not white.’ An excerpt from Tsitsi Dangarembga’s forthcoming essay collection.
Essays & Memoir|Issue 160
Letters from Ukraine
Lindsey Hilsum
‘As every soldier and every journalist who has ever covered a war knows – sleeping and eating are the most important things.’ Lindsey Hilsum writes home from Ukraine.
Essays & Memoir|Issue 160
The Recipe
Rebecca May Johnson
‘The recipe is a text that can produce spattering because it was spattering before it was language.’ Rebecca May Johnson on recipes, repetition and intimacy.
Essays & Memoir|Issue 160
Signs of an Approaching War
Volodymyr Rafeyenko
Translated by Sasha Dugdale
‘We were ourselves migrating birds; in a sense, refugees, displaced persons, without a home or a home town.’ Volodymyr Rafeyenko on the war on Ukraine, translated by Sasha Dugdale.
Words in the Head and Words in the Sentence
Herta Müller
‘During an interrogation speech glows hot in the mouth, and what is spoken freezes.’
Herta Müller on language. Translated from the German by Philip Boehm.
Édouard’s Sixteen
Kevin Lambert
‘Laurence’s busy pre-mourning himself and his lover; he knows their thing’s got an end date, it’s not far off now.’
A story by Kevin Lambert, translated from the French by Jeffrey Zuckerman.
Epicrisis
Kirill Kobrin
Kirill Kobrin on living through war and the conflict in Ukraine. Translated from the Russian by Veronika Zitta.
Granta 160: Conflict
Granta 160: Conflict features Lindsey Hilsum and Volodymyr Rafeyenko (tr. Sasha Dugdale) on the war in Ukraine, but the theme of conflict is internal as well as external. This issue also includes memoir by Janet Malcolm, Sarah Moss, Suzanne Scanlon, and essays by Rebecca May Johnson, George Prochnik, Daniel Trilling and Sana Valiulina (tr. Polly Gannon).
Fiction by Aidan Cottrell-Boyce, Jane Delury and Dizz Tate and poetry by Rae Armantrout, Sandra Cisneros and Peter Gizzi. Photography by Aline Deschamps (introduced by Rattawut Lapcharoensap) and Thomas Duffield.
Me, Rory and Aurora
Jonas Eika
A new story by Danish writer Jonas Eika, from the collection After the Sun. Translated by Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg.
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.
Highlights From Granta Books
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Personal Growth
Marina Benjamin
‘Refusal is the last recourse of the powerless.’
Marina Benjamin on her years of not eating, and not growing.
Small Girl Landlady
Adachioma Ezeano
‘Trouble was awake – we didn’t need anyone to tell us.’
New fiction by Adachioma Ezeano.
Beautiful Short Loser
Ocean Vuong
‘For as long as I can remember my body was a small town nightmare.’
A new poem by Ocean Vuong.
The Forgotten War
Leila Guerriero
Leila Guerriero investigates the collusion that left so many graves unmarked decades after the Falklands War.
News, Prizes and Events
Noel O’Regan recipient of Arts Council 2022 Next Generation award
Noel O'Regan, author of Though the Bodies Fall, is a recipient of the Arts Council 2022 Next Generation award, awarded to promising emerging artists across all disciplines.
Amnion announced as winner of Eric Gregory and Somerset Maugham awards
Amnion by Stephanie Sy-Quia has been announced as a winner of both the Eric Gregory and Somerset Maugham awards. Both awards are affiliated with the Society of Authors.
Constructing a Nervous System longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize
Constructing a Nervous System by Margo Jefferson is on the longlist for the Gordon Burn Prize 2022.
