The Man with Two Heads

‘To break our trust in these memories would be a cruel thing; to question their veracity, equally cruel.’ Elena Lappin investigates Binjamin Wilkomirski’s Holocaust memoir.

A Poet in Cuba

‘Perfect totalitarian systems have always been in the vanguard: they modify not only the past and the future, but they also abolish the present.’ Reinaldo Arenas on Cuba.

Mr Salary

‘They think you’re paying me for something, I told him.’ A story by Sally Rooney.

Ghostlands

Jennifer Kabat on the Anti-Rent War, one of the earliest moments of rural populism in the US

How Do You Write a Memoir When You Can’t Remember?

Wendy Mitchell on writing a book while living with dementia.

Cracking Up

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

Martin Goodman | Notes on Craft

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

From the editor’s desk

A selection of correspondence with authors during the early years of the magazine.

40 years of Granta

The Man with Two Heads

Elena Lappin

‘To break our trust in these memories would be a cruel thing; to question their veracity, equally cruel.’

A Poet in Cuba

Reinaldo Arenas

‘Perfect totalitarian systems have always been in the vanguard: they modify not only the past and the future, but they also abolish the present.’

Blow Your House Down

Pat Barker

‘Brenda stood up, brushing bits of gravel from her knees, and thinking, Christ, there’ve gotta be easier ways of earning a living than this.’

Mr Salary

Sally Rooney

‘My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him clearly at all.’

Grandma and Me

Thomas McGuane

‘Barring weather or a World Series game, on Sundays I’d pick up a nice little box lunch from Mustang Catering and take Grandma some place that smelled good.’

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