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Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition
Particulate Matter
Amitava Kumar
‘India, as we know it, is changing. What will it become?’
Memoir by Amitava Kumar.
Fiction|The Online Edition
Husband Number Five
Emily Adrian
‘I’ve been cruel to my mother all my life. Relentlessly hitting on her new boyfriend was barely remarkable.’
A short story by Emily Adrian.
Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition
Beyond Deep Throat | Part I
Saskia Vogel
‘Talking about pornography is uncomfortable; at times it scarcely seems possible.’
Saskia Vogel on rewriting the story of pornography.
Fiction|The Online Edition
The Gospel According to the New World
Maryse Condé
Translated by Richard Philcox
‘Our Father had perhaps two sons and sent her the younger one.’
An excerpt from The Gospel According to the New World, by Maryse Condé, translated from the French by Richard Philcox.
Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition
Loopholes
Tice Cin
‘If you’re raised without these codes, if you’re not from ends, you won’t find the routes and you won’t find us.’
Tice Cin on class, housing estates and hood surrealism.
Many Words for Heat, Many Words for Hate
Amitava Kumar
‘In Delhi the heat is chemical, something unworldly, a dry bandage or heating pad wrapped around the body.’
Memoir by Amitava Kumar.
Through the Smoke, Through the Veil, Through the Wind
Roger Reeves
‘In the middle of disaster, we made the unimaginable – joy.’
Roger Reeves on loss, memory and the legacy of slavery.
The Antigua Journals (What Is a Homeland)
Chanelle Benz
‘I am used to not belonging; it is, you could say, my brand.’
Chanelle Benz on reuniting with her father in Antigua.
Granta 162: Definitive Narratives of Escape
Our winter issue, Granta 162: Definitive Narratives of Escape, is about loss and grief, repair and resolution. With new work from Annie Ernaux (tr. Alison L. Strayer), Peter Gizzi, Catherine Lacey, Richard Eyre, Aaron Schuman and many more.
Interview
Daisy Lafarge
‘The earliest life on the planet was life without air, anaerobic bacteria that slowly died off when oxygen began to pollute the atmosphere’.
Highlights From Granta Books
From the Archive
An Evening of Martyrdom
Golnoosh Nour
New fiction from Golnoosh Nour’s debut collection about the lives of young, queer Iranians.
Recommended Reading
On Sizewell C
William Atkins
‘Where do we go, as a country, for power?’
William Atkins on the proposed nuclear power station in Suffolk.
Nancy’s Victory
Diane Williams
‘She saw a small swatch of pink and supposed a sunset was out there and thought, What can that knockout pink do for me?’
New fiction by Diane Williams.
Small Girl Landlady
Adachioma Ezeano
‘Trouble was awake – we didn’t need anyone to tell us.’
New fiction by Adachioma Ezeano.
The Blake Fellowship
Timothy Ogene
‘They call it POC here, you know, People of Colour.’
An excerpt from Timothy Ogene’s satire, Seesaw.
News, Prizes and Events
In Love and Constructing a Nervous System Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize
In Love by Amy Bloom and Constructing a Nervous System by Margo Jefferson have been shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize for Non-Fiction.
I’m A Fan Longlisted for the Women’s Prize
I'm A Fan by Sheena Patel is on the longlist for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023.
Heritage Aesthetics Longlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award
Heritage Aesthetics by Anthony Anaxagorou has been longlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award, which celebrates literature about Greece.
