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The Swallow’s Nest

The Swallow’s Nest

John Boyne

E.E.G.

E.E.G.

Daša Drndić

Bohemian Rhapsody in Five Acts

Bohemian Rhapsody in Five Acts

Tiffany Murray

Comic Timing

Comic Timing

Holly Pester

Dividing Lines

Dividing Lines

Jack Losh

The Woman Dies

Why do the women always die in films? Aoko Matsuda, translated from the Japanese by Polly Barton.

Akwaeke Emezi | In Conversation

An interview with Akwaeke Emezi about their debut novel, Freshwater.

Day of Awe

A new short story from Diane Williams.

Ali Fitzgerald | Notes on Craft

Notes on crafting a graphic memoir from Ali Fitzgerald.

Writing Like Degas Paints

Sulaiman Addonia on how Edgar Degas’ nude portraits shaped his writing.

Lucia Berlin Writes Home

Nina Ellis on the life and writing of Lucia Berlin.

Danez Smith and Kaveh Akbar

Danez Smith and Kaveh Akbar In Conversation

Danez Smith and Kaveh Akbar discuss their latest work, community, and food.

Hoarfrost

John Patrick McHugh

Can infidelity make up for infidelity? New fiction from John Patrick McHugh.

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Painter to the King

Amy Sackville

This is an excerpt from Painter to the King, Amy Sackville's account of the life of Diego Velázquez. Now available from Granta Books.

Forward Prizes for Poetry

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Danez Smith

‘the boy claps me between / his hands & i break apart like glitter’

The Republic of Motherhood

Liz Berry

‘a cardigan / soft as a creature, smelling of birth and milk’ – New poetry from Liz Berry.

Zeus

Fiona Benson

‘days I talked with Zeus / I ate only ice / felt the blood trouble and burn / under my skin’

Danez Smith and Kaveh Akbar In Conversation

Danez Smith & Kaveh Akbar

Danez Smith and Kaveh Akbar share sublime food experiences, discuss their latest collections and ask one another how best to bring community into poetry.

Assuming the Habits of the Day and Night

Vahni Capildeo

‘my every day is a being in of being / a mixity of worlds’

Dionne Brand reads her contribution to Granta 141: Canada

Dionne Brand reads from ‘The Blue Clerk’, her contribution to Granta 141: Canada. ‘I will have cleaned out all of my doubt, all of my prevarication, all of my timidity.’

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The Waiter’s Wife

Zadie Smith

‘Two plates smashed to the floor. She patted her stomach to indicate her unborn child and pointed to the pieces, 'Hungry?'‘

Night

Alice Munro

‘I read books as usual, nobody knew there was a thing the matter with me.’

Human Moments in World War III

Don DeLillo

‘Happiness is not a fact of this experience, at least not to the extent that one is bold enough to speak of it.’

Cousins

Angela Carter

‘The people who live in its shadow have no relation to the mountain itself’

Fellow Workers

Mary McCarthy

‘If it had not been for me, he would never have been in Mexico.’

Authors

Mariana Enríquez | Notes on Craft

Mariana Enriquez

‘I found a way to speak: the women talked for me’ Translated by Josie Mitchell.

The Editor’s Chair: On Christine Montalbetti

Alex Andriesse

‘For Montalbetti to have achieved this syntactic ease in French is a feat. For the translator to reproduce it in English requires the capacities of a medium.’

Danny Denton | Notes on Craft

Danny Denton

‘My tuppence on craft is this: as a writer, you must give your reader space to experience the world of your story (whatever form it takes)’

Amit Chaudhuri | First Sentence

Amit Chaudhuri

‘A scene in which nothing is ostensibly happening will absorb me; so will a paragraph that contains no vital piece of information.’

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