New Writing on Granta.com
Fiction|The Online Edition
Night as It Falls
Jakuta Alikavazovic
Translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman
‘There wasn’t much money. His father had been blunt: the classes were fine, the rest wasn’t.’
Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition
Disorientation
Ian Williams
‘The moment in childhood when one realizes that one is Black is profoundly disorienting.’
Fiction|The Online Edition
Asylum Road
Olivia Sudjic
‘She’d blinked at me kindly and said it must be sad when your country no longer exists, then returned to pulverising her asparagus.’
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.
Interview
Jay Bernard
An interview with the winner of the 2020 Sunday Times / University of Warwick Young Writer of the Year Award.
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.’
Interview
Daisy Lafarge
‘The earliest life on the planet was life without air, anaerobic bacteria that slowly died off when oxygen began to pollute the atmosphere’.
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
A Bleed of Blue
Amy Key
‘I was trying simultaneously to numb the grief I felt and to burrow into that grief, so I could stand in it.’
Qualities of Earth
Rebecca May Johnson
‘Allotment earth is like the cache on a public computer, it holds too much information.’
Laundry Bills and Manifestos
Francesca Wade
‘The great pleasure of archive work lies in searching for these secrets known and unknown.’
Roses
Legacy Russell
‘What if we are not ‘well-behaved’? What then?’
Legacy Russell on her father and the FBI.
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.
