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Granta 143: After the Fact

Oh, the Obvious

Oh, the Obvious

Christine Schutt

Acts of Infidelity

Acts of Infidelity

Lena Andersson

Four Syrian Borders: A Motorcycle Journey, 2007

Four Syrian Borders: A Motorcycle Journey, 2007

Esa Aldegheri & Gavin Francis

The Perseids

The Perseids

Susan Straight

Darling

Darling

Chelsey Minnis

Summer after the War

A story by Nobel Prize laureate Kazuo Ishiguro

Karl Kraus and Veza

Elias Canetti on the Viennese salons of the 1920s

Boys in Zinc

‘I was trying to present a history of feelings, not the history of the war itself.’ – Svetlana Alexievich
Will Harris Holy Man

Holy Man

A new poem by Will Harris.

The Leech Barometer

Rebecca Giggs on leeches, both real and imaginary.

Kudos

An excerpt from Rachel Cusk’s novel Kudos.

The Duchess of Albany

‘The permanence of his absence is a noise she hears when she listens to how quiet.’ A short story by Christine Schutt.

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Ben Lerner | False Starts

Ben Lerner on short-circuiting his neurotic inclinations, wrestling with his own architecture, and thinking of himself as a poet.

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Summer after the War

Kazuo Ishiguro

‘War was not a good thing, everyone knew that now.’

Karl Kraus and Veza

Elias Canetti

‘It was natural that the rumors about both these people should reach me at the same time; they came from the same source, from which everything new for me came at that time.’

Boys in Zinc

Svetlana Alexievich

‘I was trying to present a history of feelings, not the history of the war itself.’

Terminus

Pedro Rosa Mendes

‘We hope that the copilot knows the terrain well. That his mask of youth conceals the face of a seasoned veteran of war. That he knows the minefields because he helped plant them.’

Animals

Michel Laub

‘I only stopped playing with him when he began biting the fingers of anyone who tried to pet him.’

In the Valley of Coachella

Susan Straight & Douglas McCulloh

Novelist Susan Straight and photographer Douglas McCulloh visit the Coachella valley. ‘There may be nowhere in America where the ancient and the new coexist so closely’

Authors

Carys Davies | Notes on Craft

Carys Davies

‘All good stories are both resonant and concrete; they live in the mind of the reader and reverberate beyond the pages of the book.’

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.

Max Porter reads Will Self

Max Porter & Will Self

In this episode of the podcast, Max Porter, author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers reads ‘False Blood’ by Will Self.

Greg Jackson | First Sentence

Greg Jackson

‘I am being, I believe, about as forthright as I am being coy.’

2018 Man Booker International Prize Longlist

The Fruit of My Woman

Han Kang

‘It was late May when I first saw the bruises on my wife’s body.’

The Hotel Capital

Olga Tokarczuk

‘At the same time I take off my exotic language, my strange name, my sense of humour, my face lines, my taste for food not appreciated here, my memory of small events—and I stand naked in this pink and white uniform as if emerging from the sea mist ’.

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