Granta 136: Legacies of Love new fiction Memoirs of a Polar Bear Yoko Tawada ‘I was perfectly content with my new life until I began to write my autobiography.’ Essay He Had His Reasons Colin Barrett Colin Barrett on the Hawe family murder-suicide, and what the Irish media’s coverage tells us about the nation’s prejudices. Essays & Memoir Travels in Pornland Andrea Stuart ‘I can easily recall my first brush with porn’ . from the print issue Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? Kathleen Collins ‘It’s the year of “the human being”. The year of race-creed-color blindness. It’s 1963.’ new fiction Memoirs of a Polar Bear Yoko Tawada ‘I was perfectly content with my new life until I began to write my autobiography.’ The Good CitizensChristy Edwall‘In the black fog of her grief, Anna Kraft received an invitation.’Winnie and the Innocence of the WorldJoost Zwagerman‘This is how I became Winnie’s clandestine, outcast and utterly powerless guardian angel.’ The MaenadEliza Robertson‘She feels the wildness enter her and keeps her eyes shut.’ New fiction from Eliza Robertson.The Adventures of Amit MajmudarAmit Majmudar‘Never laid a snare for nothin. / Never caught a bullfrog. Broke / my slingshot wishbone, wishin. / Never had a smoke.’ New poetry from Amit Majmudar. Authors Five Things Right Now: Melissa FebosMelissa Febos‘I don’t care if anyone is watching and that’s the point.’Discoveries: The Unknown Known A round-up of things we love, from all over the internet. Interview: Oliverio CoelhoOliverio Coelho & Kit Maude‘I know what you're thinking: I'm indulging in cut-price philosophy to avoid the question’Astrid Alben In Conversation: PodcastAstrid AlbenIn this edition of the Granta podcast we speak to Astrid Alben about her work, the interdisciplinary journal Pars, and developing poetic alter egos. Man Booker Prize SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER Do Not Say We Have Nothing‘In a single year, my father left us twice.’YouthJ.M. Coetzee‘There are two, perhaps three places in the world where life can be lived at its fullest intensity’ Nothing Ever Happens HereOttessa Moshfegh‘I was broke, and I was a nobody, but I was happy.’Taken out of ContextPaul Beatty‘I am not the seventh son of a seventh son of a seventh son.’That Whole London ThingA.L. KennedyI could be moving to London. Maybe. In theory. I don’t know. I am currently... From the Archive: Heat Some HeatMiranda July‘No one knows why ripping up a name makes a person call – science can’t explain it. Erasing the name also works.’A Brief History of FireJennifer Vanderbes‘My happiness was so deep I was afraid to speak of it.’ The First PunchJon McGregor‘He calls me a cunt, and he kicks me in the side, his boot fitting neatly between my hip bone and the base of my ribcage.’Hush . . . Hush Sweet CharlotteKazushige Abe‘The crucial thing was to cool the baby off, bring the fever down.’BeachRoberto Bolaño‘I said to myself that maybe he wasn’t about to die.’
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