Granta 140: State of Mind

Peter Stamm on To the Back of Beyond

The New Man | Devorah Baum and Josh Appignanesi in Conversation with Hisham Matar

Devorah Baum, Josh Appignanesi, Hisham Matar

Notes on a Suicide

Rana Dasgupta

The Republic of Motherhood

Liz Berry

A Suburban Weekend

Lisa Taddeo

Pop-Up People

Peter Pomerantsev on our new age of pop-up populism. What are the rules of the new politics?

Soon Comes Night

When a terrifying stranger began haunting his dreams, Ekow Eshun turned to therapy and confronted his past.

Toni Morrison In Conversation

‘Make America Great Again’ means ‘Make America White Again.’

Close-up of an anatomised brain for Anil Seth

Nothing to be afraid of | State of Mind

Anil K. Seth on the ties between our brains, bodies and consciousness.

Brother | State of Mind

Max Porter on an extraordinary therapy session with his brother.

White | State of Mind

New writing from Han Kang, translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith.

Mistaken | State of Mind

Maru Ruefle on the complexity of names.

The Quibbler | Discoveries

A cluster of links feat. gentrification fiction, Harry Potter errata and cat-facial recognition technology.

Anthony Marra | Best of Young American Novelists

Anthony Marra on how he got his start in writing, paradoxes in literature and the (otherwise useless) qualities that make for a good author.

Authors

Joanna Kavenna | Podcast

Joanna Kavenna & Ellah Allfrey

Ellah Alfrey talks with Joanna Kavenna about wanderlust, genre-hopping and Nietzsche.

Emma Cline | Five Things Right Now

Emma Cline

The author of The Girls and one of our 2017 Best of Young American Novelist shares five things she’s reading, watching and thinking about right now.

George Saunders and Ben Marcus In Conversation

George Saunders & Ben Marcus

‘One purpose of art is to get us to wake up, recalibrate our emotional life, get ourselves into proper relation to reality.’

Amit Chaudhuri | First Sentence

Amit Chaudhuri

‘A scene in which nothing is ostensibly happening will absorb me; so will a paragraph that contains no vital piece of information.’

The American Experience in 737 Novels

The history of American literature in a navigable map.

from the archive

Israel

Amos Oz

‘Israeli readers do not really enjoy their literature. They read it as if obsessed.’

The French Lieutenant’s Diary

John Fowles

‘It was really just one visual idea: a woman standing at the end of the Cobb and staring mysteriously out to sea.’

The Seventh Man

Haruki Murakami

‘I looked up at the sky. A few grey cotton chunks of cloud hung there, motionless.’

Attempt at an Inventory

Georges Perec & John Sturrock

‘Nine beers, two Tuborgs, four Guinnesses.’

How to Write about Africa

Binyavanga Wainaina

‘Always end your book with Nelson Mandela saying something about rainbows or renaissances. Because you care.’