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‘The whole episode is a miracle and much of the miracle is in the muscles of Carmela’s face.’

Aidan Cottrell-Boyce on craft, nuance and The Sopranos.

Two Poems

Tim Liardet

‘Head up, / head down, it strolled ever so slowly out of the frame / with the suggestion of a limp. Extinct as an umbrella.’ Poetry by Tim Liardet.

I Won’t Let You Go

Translated by Allison Markin Powell

‘I have no idea why I felt so drawn to the mermaid, but the pull was irresistible.’ Fiction by Hiromi Kawakami, translated by Allison Markin Powell.

Dazzling

Chịkọdịlị Emelụmadụ

‘I saw it all. Nobody here gives children ear, so I saw everything just by being quiet and doing like I dinor see.’ An extract from Dazzling by Chịkọdịlị Emelụmadụ.

What You Need From the Night

Translated by Shaun Whiteside

‘Fus was twenty-five, he wasn’t a kid. What was he doing hanging out with fascists?’ An excerpt from What You Need From the Night. Translated from the French by Shaun Whiteside.

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Granta 161: Sister, Brother

Psychoanalysis famously privileges the vertical relationship between a child (the patient) and their parents over the seemingly equal and unproblematic horizontal connections between siblings. This issue of Granta tells a different story – one of chaotic hierarchies, zero-sum games of competition alternating with tenderness, lifelong relationships that nevertheless can sometimes break.