New Writing on Granta.com
Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition
Uwaa: The Sound of the Feeling that Cannot Be Spoken
Polly Barton
An excerpt from Fifty Sounds, a memoir by Polly Barton, translator of Aoko Matsuda and Kikuko Tsumura.
Fiction|The Online Edition
The Walker
Izumi Suzuki
Translated by Daniel Joseph
A newly translated story from the late Japanese writer.
Fiction|The Online Edition
A Perfect Cemetery
Federico Falco
Translated by Jennifer Croft
An excerpt from Federico Falco’s story collection A Perfect Cemetery.
Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition
Mould
Alice Ash
‘There was fur on the window frame, and we drew into it with our fingernails: dark, mushroomy bursts.’
A new essay by Alice Ash.
Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition
Crystals
Kate Lebo
‘Sam had a urate crystal in his toe, built by genes and rich eating.’
Kate Lebo on Xylitol.
On Vulnerability
Katherine Angel
‘Is anyone an authority on themselves, whether on their sexuality or anything else?’
An excerpt from Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again.
Lice
AK Blakemore
‘I often had head lice as a child. Outbreaks circulated around my primary school on a seasonal basis.’
A new essay from the author of The Manningtree Witches.
Fat Bodies
Forsyth Harmon
‘Justine was at my lab table, pulling at the ends of her black bob, shoving her hair into her mouth.’
An excerpt from Justine, out with Tin House Books.
Granta 154: I’ve Been Away for a While
‘Perhaps in isolation a new form of communication is emerging, expressing what readers and writers have always told one another, via books and letters and on the literary stage: I hear you. You are not alone.’
– Sigrid Rausing, Editor of Granta
The Binoculars of Jah
Colin Grant
‘No matter how I attempted to interpret the email, it could only be read in one way: I was out of the Bunny Wailer club. Jah Bunny had put a curse on me.’
On Running
Larissa Pham
‘This makes more sense to me as a bodily practice: that desire to push one’s physical limits well beyond their natural bounds.’
Highlights From Granta Books
Recommended Reading
A Bleed of Blue
Amy Key
‘I was trying simultaneously to numb the grief I felt and to burrow into that grief, so I could stand in it.’
Qualities of Earth
Rebecca May Johnson
‘Allotment earth is like the cache on a public computer, it holds too much information.’
Laundry Bills and Manifestos
Francesca Wade
‘The great pleasure of archive work lies in searching for these secrets known and unknown.’
Roses
Legacy Russell
‘What if we are not ‘well-behaved’? What then?’
Legacy Russell on her father and the FBI.
News, Prizes and Events
Five Granta Titles Longlisted for The Orwell Prizes
Weather, Between Two Fires, Eat the Buddha, Labours of Love and Recollections of My Non-Existence are all longlisted for The Orwell Prizes.
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed Longlisted for the International Booker Prize
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enriquez (translated by Megan McDowell) has been longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2021.
Pew Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize
Pew by Catherine Lacey has been shortlisted for the 2021 Dylan Thomas Prize.
