New Writing on Granta.com
Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition
Bleak Midwinter
Catherine Taylor
‘In a sense, we had been waiting for the Ripper to visit for months, even years.’
Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition
Notes on Craft
Rebecca Watson
I was possessed, for a year, by a woman whose name I do not know.
Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition
Laundry Bills and Manifestos
Francesca Wade
‘The great pleasure of archive work lies in searching for these secrets known and unknown.’
In Conversation|The Online Edition
In Conversation
George Saunders & Natasha Randall
‘The way I write in general is basically just to move, in as a quiet-minded a manner as I can, toward what I feel as heat.’
Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition
Having and Being Had
Eula Biss
‘What does it say about capitalism that we have money and want to spend it but we can’t find anything worth buying?’
Granta 153: Second Nature
Never has there been a greater need for writers who can communicate about the environment in such clear, immediate and powerful ways, who can envisage the past as well as the future.
The contributors to this issue all have a deep understanding of how nature works. Some are scientists; others, environmental journalists exploring the latest thinking about ecosystems and how to repair them; or poets, novelists and activists examining our responses to the current crisis.
The knowledge is already out there. We just have to listen.
On Running
Larissa Pham
‘This makes more sense to me as a bodily practice: that desire to push one’s physical limits well beyond their natural bounds.’
Highlights From Granta Books
Recommended Reading
Slobber and Drool
Jess Arndt
‘My face, not the glass, was blurry. I had no idea what I really looked like besides lumpy, fuzzy, profuse.’
VIO
Kanako Nishi
‘I had an odd feeling as I regarded Yō, who knew things about me that I hadn’t known.’
Sleeping Beauty
Laura Demers
‘It’s normal not to be offered anything to eat or drink when you are a princess.’
Messrs. External & Bodily
Helen Marten
‘Space is marked and people do their best, but somewhere somebody made a false prophecy for the land’.
News, Prizes and Events
Launch of Granta 153: Second Nature
Granta magazine invites you to a reading from our autumn issue, Granta 153: Second Nature, guest-edited by Isabella Tree. Register to attend the Zoom launch on 19 November.
Souvankham Thammavongsa Wins 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize
The title story of Souvankham Thammavongsa’s winning collection How to Pronounce Knife was first published in Granta 141: Canada.
Jenny Offill shortlisted for the Books Are My Bag Readers Awards 2020
Weather by Jenny Offill has been selected by booksellers for the shortlist of the Books Are My Bag Readers Awards.
