Granta 140: State of Mind

Stuck Girls

Emma Copley Eisenberg

Peter Stamm on To the Back of Beyond

Notes on a Suicide

Rana Dasgupta

Possessed | State of Mind

Jules Montague

The New Man | Devorah Baum and Josh Appignanesi in Conversation with Hisham Matar

Devorah Baum, Josh Appignanesi, Hisham Matar

Pop-Up People

Peter Pomerantsev on our new age of pop-up populism. What are the rules of the new politics?

Soon Comes Night

When a terrifying stranger began haunting his dreams, Ekow Eshun turned to therapy and confronted his past.

Toni Morrison In Conversation

‘Make America Great Again’ means ‘Make America White Again.’

Close-up of an anatomised brain for Anil Seth

Nothing to be afraid of | State of Mind

Anil K. Seth on the ties between our brains, bodies and consciousness.

Brother | State of Mind

Max Porter on an extraordinary therapy session with his brother.

White | State of Mind

New writing from Han Kang, translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith.

Mistaken | State of Mind

Mary Ruefle on the complexity of names.

The Quibbler | Discoveries

A cluster of links feat. gentrification fiction, Harry Potter errata and cat-facial recognition technology.

Anthony Marra | Best of Young American Novelists

Anthony Marra on how he got his start in writing, paradoxes in literature and the (otherwise useless) qualities that make for a good author.

Authors

Evie Wyld | Podcast

Evie Wyld & Ted Hodgkinson

Evie Wyld talks to online editor Ted Hodgkinson about why living in Peckham makes it easier to write about rural Australia, how memory informs her stories and why she can’t write a novel without at least one shark in it.

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.

George Saunders and Ben Marcus In Conversation

George Saunders & Ben Marcus

‘One purpose of art is to get us to wake up, recalibrate our emotional life, get ourselves into proper relation to reality.’

First Sentence: Mary O’Donoghue

Mary O’Donoghue

‘It’s the small stuff – and here I mean the odd particulate matter of daily life – that lets me access the sprawl of a place that wasn’t mine but has incrementally become so.’

The American Experience in 737 Novels

The history of American literature in a navigable map.

from the archive

Israel

Amos Oz

‘Israeli readers do not really enjoy their literature. They read it as if obsessed.’

The French Lieutenant’s Diary

John Fowles

‘It was really just one visual idea: a woman standing at the end of the Cobb and staring mysteriously out to sea.’

The Seventh Man

Haruki Murakami

‘I looked up at the sky. A few grey cotton chunks of cloud hung there, motionless.’

Attempt at an Inventory

Georges Perec & John Sturrock

‘Nine beers, two Tuborgs, four Guinnesses.’

How to Write about Africa

Binyavanga Wainaina

‘Always end your book with Nelson Mandela saying something about rainbows or renaissances. Because you care.’