Two Poems

New poetry by Rebecca Tamás, from her collection WITCH.

Deng’s Dogs

‘From the moment he lit his first Inca, we both understood that we were engaged in a fight.’ Santiago Roncagliolo on human rights activist Father Hubert Lanssiers.

Capital Gains

‘Delhi is a segregated city; an impenetrable, wary city.’ Rana Dasgupta on the new Indian aristocracy.

Cracking Up

Kevin Breathnach is on the verge of cracking up. An excerpt from the book Tunnel Vision.

Hot Rain

A story from Terese Svoboda’s new collection, Great American Desert.

Martin Goodman | Notes on Craft

Martin Goodman on why it took him twenty years to write his latest novel.

Diana Athill

Margaret Atwood on her friend and editor, Diana Athill.

Distilling Existence: A Study with Wilson Amunga

Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor & Bernd Hartung

‘If the river makes a sound now, it is a drawn-out moan.’ Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor on distilleries in Kenya, with photographs by Bernd Hartung.

The Latest from Granta Books

A Night in the Engadine

John Kaag

John Kaag, author of Hiking with Nietzsche, camps out in the mountains of the Engadine where Nietzsche wrote Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

Imperium

Ryszard Kapuściński

Ryszard Kapuściński, once the only foreign correspondent for the Polish Press Agency, on the concept of borders.

Devorah Baum, Josh Cohen and Anouchka Grose on the Politics of Feeling

Devorah Baum, Josh Cohen and Anouchka Grose on the ways in which feelings have come to affect our political opinions, the complexities of democracy, and the competing pulls of activism, inertia and despair.