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Essays & Memoir|Issue 151
The Kobold
Daisy Hildyard
In a plain material sense the condition of being alive is that of living inside this contradiction – being membrane-bound.
Fiction|The Online Edition
Capitán
Magalí Etchebarne
Translated by Julia Sanches & Charlotte Whittle
‘A man, my mother once told me, is a small animal that looks immense.’
Fiction|Granta Books
Pew
Catherine Lacey
‘The church has no thoughts. The church is brick and glass. If they ever slept there, they would see that.’
Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition
On the Extremest Verge
Mark Doty
Mark Doty on the sly wit and visionary luminosity of Walt Whitman.
Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition
Trees, Disease
Philip Marsden
‘The greatest problem with the recent enthusiasm for tree-planting is disease. Large-scale projects mean large-scale movement of tree stock, which in turn has helped spread a number of highly contagious arboreal pathogens.’
Notes on Craft
Alan Rossi
‘The whole universe emerges and lives through this little consciousness that we call our self.’
Thick Legs
Natalia Borges Polesso
‘Was soccer a sign? I don’t think so, nearly all the girls had boyfriends, except for Greice and Kelli, and I didn’t have one because I was a puta, as they used to say, I hooked up with everybody.’
Free to read this week
Granta 83: This Overheating World
Autumn 2003
For the benefit of the reading community, Granta will be removing the paywall on one issue in our archive each week for the duration of the coronavirus crisis.
Free this week is Granta 83: This Overheating World. This issue is a snapshot of our world as it heated politically and environmentally. Featuring Thomas Keneally on Antarctica, Philip Marsden on the weather in Mongolia, Edward Burtynsky’s industrial sublime and Nuha al-Radi on returning to Baghdad during the invasion of Iraq.
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Mark Blacklock
‘Never was a man so deep in thought.’
An extract from Mark Blacklock’s new novel.
To All My Past Neighbors
Jessica Francis Kane
‘Connections are being forged, even as we keep our distance. Let’s hold onto them in the after.’
Jessica Francis Kane on neighbourliness in the time of COVID-19.
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Zoe Tennant nominated for James Beard Foundation Journalism Award
Zoe Tennant’s essay ‘First Course’ has been nominated for a 2020 James Beard Foundation Journalism Award.
Four Granta Authors Longlisted for 2020 Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award
Three stories published by Granta, as well as a story by a Granta Books author, feature on the longlist for the 2020 Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award.
Joseph Leo Koerner in Best American Essays 2020
Joseph Leo Koerner’s essay ‘Maly Trostinets’ has been selected to feature in Best American Essays 2020.
Recommended Reading
In Conversation
Jenny Offill & Mark O'Connell
‘This isn’t the end of the world. It’s history going about its business. This isn’t the last apocalypse by a long shot.’
The Lost Performance of the High Priestess of the Temple of Horror
Carmen Maria Machado
‘The light pouring from the open door throbbed like a bruised thumb.’
New fiction from Carmen Maria Machado.
The First Winter of My Married Life
William Gass
‘Our ears were soon as sensitive as a skinless arm, and we spoke in whispers, registered the furtive drip of remote taps.’
The Second Career of Michael Riegels
Oliver Bullough
‘The new law was technical and complicated, but created something genuinely new: the international business company, a hyper-deregulated shell corporation.’
Oliver Bullough investigates the history of shell companies in the British Virgin Islands.
I, Minotaur
Natalie Diaz
‘There is no such thing as time or June, / only what you’re born into’
A new poem by Natalie Diaz.
