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Fiction|The Online Edition
Scream Queen
Julia Armfield
‘She is well-behaved, as icons go, she toes the party line.’ Short fiction by the author of Our Wives Under the Sea.
Fiction|The Online Edition
Welcome to the New World
Jessi Jezewska Stevens
‘Debt is the molten bedrock upon which all else shifts.’ New fiction from Jessi Jezewska Stevens.
Fiction|The Online Edition
The Nightwatch
Mary Rokonadravu
Winner of the 2022 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for the Pacific region.
Poetry|The Online Edition
Two Poems
Collin Callahan
‘He twists biblical spliffs. Curtains warble in the television light.’ Two poems by Collin Callahan.
Fiction|The Online Edition
We Had to Remove This Post
Hanna Bervoets
Translated by Emma Rault
‘A video of someone flinging their cat out the window is only allowed if cruelty is not a motive’. An excerpt from the new novel by Hanna Bervoets.
Acts of Service
Lillian Fishman
‘I had hundreds of nudes stored in my phone, but I’d never sent them to anyone.’
An excerpt from Lillian Fishman’s new novel.
How It Works
David Hayden
‘Dinner plates empty in front of me, and the present softens and melts’.
New fiction from David Hayden.
Kafka’s Drawings
Franz Kafka & Andreas Kilcher
Previously unpublished drawings by Franz Kafka, author of The Trial and The Castle.
Granta 159: What Do You See?
Granta 159: What Do You See? features William Atkins on Sizewell C, the proposed nuclear power station in Suffolk; travel essays by Jason Allen-Paisant and Ishion Hutchinson, memoir by Kevin Childs, Geoff Dyer, Alejandro Zambra (translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell) and Lars Horn.
Fiction by Adam Foulds, Andrew Holleran and Maxim Osipov (translated from the Russian by Alex Fleming) and Rebecca Sollom.
Photography by Phalonne Pierre Louis; Raphaela Rosella, introduced by Nicole R. Fleetwood; and Muhammad Salah, introduced by Esther Kinsky. Cover image by Suzie Howell.
Two Poems
Beth Bachmann
‘Under the skin, our skeletons / are braided with tendons – roses on an openwork arch’ Two poems by Beth Bachmann
A World Run by Mothers
Saba Sams
‘In all the years I spent dreaming of motherhood, not once did I dream of men. If anything, I expected that romance would be my downfall.’
Saba Sams on the women who raised her, and becoming a mother at 22.
Highlights From Granta Books
Recommended Reading
The Schoolmaster’s Enemy
Missouri Williams
A new short story by Missouri Williams, author of The Doloriad.
Acts of Desperation
Megan Nolan
‘I wish I could step inside this memory and steady myself, put a cool reassuring hand on my own and convince myself to wait.’
An excerpt from Megan Nolan’s Acts of Desperation, shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writers Award.
She Used to Sing Opera
Imogen Crimp
‘I used to be ashamed of it, though I’m not sure what exactly felt shameful.’
On training to be an opera singer.
Nights at the Hotel Splendido
Sam Munson
‘Everybody’s face looks different at night, especially outside. You see their real faces.’
A new story by Sam Munson.
News, Prizes and Events
Michel Nieva and Natasha Wimmer winners of 2022 O. Henry Prize
‘Dengue Boy’ by Michel Nieva, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer, is a winner of the 2022 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction.
A Passage North Shortlisted for Dylan Thomas Prize
A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam is on the shortlist for the Dylan Thomas Prize 2022.
The Invisible Land Wins the Scott Moncrieff Prize
Sam Taylor's translation of The Invisible Land by Hubert Mingarelli has won the Society of Authors Scott Moncrieff Prize 2021.
