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Granta 143: After the Fact

Ways of Looking

Ways of Looking

Lulah Ellender

Challenger Deep

Challenger Deep

Ashley Hutson

Gooseen

Gooseen

Nuala O’Connor

The Break-up of the Ice

The Break-up of the Ice

Lucie Elven

Diary

Diary

Gunnar Smoliansky

The Waste Land

‘The issue of Sellafield is complicated by the great skill the government has shown in turning accidents to good account.’ – Marilynne Robinson

Cyprus United

Joe Dunthorne on the terrible football of the Writers’ World Cup.

The Hotel Capital

‘Clad in the pink and white uniform, I find myself viewing the corridor with different eyes.’ – Olga Tokarczuk

When Poets Write Novels

Caoilinn Hughes on the ten best novels written by poets

William Atkins In Conversation

William Atkins on deserts, exploration and monasticism.

Jean Frémon

Louise Bourgeois as I Knew Her

Novelist Jean Frémon on the artist Louise Bourgeois

Amy bloom five things

Amy Bloom | Five Things Right Now

Amy Bloom shares five things she’s reading, watching and thinking about right now.

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Doubling and Redoubling | Discoveries

Josie Mitchell

Photographs, e-fiction and daylight saving time. Our favourite pieces published elsewhere this week.

Paul Auster | False Starts

Paul Auster on how he gave up on fiction at twenty-three and returned to it in his thirties.

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The Waste Land

Marilynne Robinson

‘On the coast of Cumbria, in the Lake District, there is a nuclear reprocessing plant called Sellafield, formerly Windscale, that daily pumps up to a million gallons of radioactive waste down a mile and a half of pipeline, into the Irish Sea. It has done this for thirty-five years.’

Cyprus United

Joe Dunthorne

‘The idea that football might provide an opportunity to overcome our dumber instincts seemed ridiculous now: football was a chance to set our idiocy free.’

A Walk to Kobe

Haruki Murakami

‘What I’m talking about is a different sea, and different mountains.’

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.’

His Roth

Philip Roth

‘I naively believed as a child that I would always have a father present, and the truth seems to be that I always will.’

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.’

Sana Krasikov | Five Things Right Now

Sana Krasikov

‘The world is teeming with demons who are always looking for ways to screw with your good fortune.’

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.

Cynthia Ozick | First Sentence

Cynthia Ozick

‘Some stories begin with an incident, or a set of enigmatic circumstances, or a scene indelibly witnessed, or the relationship of unlike temperaments, or even something as gossamer as a mood. And then there is the kind of story that is rooted in an idea.’

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