New Writing on Granta.com

‘She appeals to the fisherman, the rickshaw driver, the bricklayer. Her devotees are of all types’

Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition

The Price of Vagueness in a Pandemic

Eleanor Morgan

‘With each day bringing more confusion as this mysterious virus holds us in its grip, cognitive dissonance is everywhere.’

Fiction|The Online Edition

The Mistake

Peter Cameron

‘Yes, I was sick, she said. You’re very observant. She raised her hand and wiped the back of her leather glove across her lips.’

Essays & Memoir|Issue 152

Spring

China Miéville

‘That after so many years of feeling that some Event was due, that something vast must surely happen, something vast happened. Is happening.’

Poetry|Issue 152

Communion

Rachel Long

‘Behold the miracle of afro hair.’

In Conversation | The Online Edition

In Conversation

Avni Doshi & Sophie Mackintosh

‘I do wonder to what extent writing about motherhood is actually writing about being mothered’.

Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Seeing Things

Emily LaBarge

‘The City of the city is jagged and spiky, tangled, twisted – burned down, paved over, rebuilt, unruly with wealth and poverty side by side, as they have always been.’

In Conversation | The Online Edition

In Conversation

Morgan Parker & Rachel Long

‘Everyone should be thinking about how they do their thing specifically, how they can use their influences combined with their own language, music and experience.’

In Conversation | The Online Edition

Interview

Teju Cole

‘What is this elsewhere that one is longing to be in? Part of the answer to this question, for me, is Switzerland.’

In Conversation | The Online Edition

Interview

Raymond Antrobus

An interview with the 2019 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year.

Art & Photography | The Online Edition

True Story

Toyin Ojih Odutola & Yaa Gyasi

‘What if our art had not been stolen, our people not enslaved? What if we imagined a good story, a righteous and just story, and then we worked to make it true?’