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Fiction|Granta 148
The Spread
Ben Lerner
‘He began to feel less like he was delivering a speech and more like a speech was delivering him.’
Read an extract from Ben Lerner’s latest novel, The Topeka School.
Fiction|The Online Edition
Open Day
Benjamin Markovits
‘You can be sad and angry, you don’t have to choose, she told him.’
A new short story from one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists.
Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition
The Third Rainbow Girl
Emma Copley Eisenberg
‘I felt ruined by my time in Pocahontas County – no other place would ever be so good.’
An excerpt from Emma Copley Eisenberg’s The Third Rainbow Girl.
Fiction|The Online Edition
Late Arrival
Clemens Meyer
Translated by Katy Derbyshire
Two women working shifts in a train station make a connection in this short story translated from the German by Katy Derbyshire.
Dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones
Edoardo Albert
Edoardo Albert, author of Warrior, writes about five archaeological findings that brought the past to life.
On Being French and Chinese
Tash Aw
‘We were trapped in a sort of double prison: by poverty in Europe, and by China and its expectations of us.’
Granta 149, Europe: Strangers in the Land
Autumn 2019
Essays and memoir by Katherine Angel, William Atkins, Tash Aw, Melitta Breznik, Lara Feigel, Joseph Leo Koerner, Andrew Miller, Ulf Karl Olov Nilsson, Elif Shafak and Adam Weymouth
Fiction by Anne Carson, Caroline Albertine Minor and Antonio Muñoz Molina Poetry by Ken Babstock, Colin Herd and Peter Mishler Photography by Bruno Fert and Nicola Lo Calzo, introduced by Nam Le and Daisy Lafarge
Plus a symposium on Europe, with responses from Marie Darrieussecq, Laurent Gaudé, Alicja Gescinska, Romesh Gunesekera, Michael Hofmann, Srećko Horvat, Tom McCarthy, Orhan Pamuk, Jacqueline Rose and Ludmila Ulitskaya
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The Third Rainbow Girl
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‘I felt ruined by my time in Pocahontas County – no other place would ever be so good.’
An excerpt from Emma Copley Eisenberg’s The Third Rainbow Girl.
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George Saunders & Ben Marcus
‘One purpose of art is to get us to wake up, recalibrate our emotional life, get ourselves into proper relation to reality.’
10 Schools of Philosophy that should be better known (in the West)
Julian Baggini
The author of How The World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy explains ten of the most overlooked philosophies from around the world.
The Strange Story of the World
Chigozie Obioma
‘Mama leaving home with my brother Folu was the last straw, the final stage in the process of Papa’s descent into that great darkness.’ New fiction from Chigozie Obioma.
No Justice, No Peace
Chris Knapp
Chris Knapp on the systemic racism and violence of the French police, and the grassroots organisations that are campaigning for change.
