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Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition
The Lessons We Choose
Beth Gardiner
This will not be the last crisis. What can we learn from this one?
Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition
Plague Diary: March
Gonçalo M. Tavares
Translated by Daniel Hahn
A coronavirus diary from the Portuguese writer Gonçalo M. Tavares, translated by Daniel Hahn.
In Conversation|The Online Edition
In Conversation
Morgan Parker & Rachel Long
‘I’m not like, it’s slavery’s fault I’m single, but also I’m like, it is slavery’s fault I’m single’
Rachel Long interviews Morgan Parker.
Fiction|The Online Edition
Some Rivers Meet
James Clarke
‘What a thing it must be to lose your marbles on your own, with not even enough milk in the fridge for a proper brew.’
Fiction by James Clarke.
From the Spanish Flu to Covid-19
Reina James
Reina James compares our response to Covid-19 to the reaction to the Spanish Flu in 1918.
Granta 150: There Must Be Ways to Organise the World with Language
Winter 2020
‘There must be ways to organise the world with language.’ From ‘Binyavanga’ by Pwaangulongii Dauod
The English language is like London, a cluster of myriad villages, each with its own atmosphere and particular cadences. This issue – our 150th – celebrates language, showcasing some of the most inventive writers of fiction today.
City of Pigs
David Hayden
‘I have heard there is a city of pigs thirty miles from our city. I imagine it is only a farm. I cannot imagine a city of pigs.’
New fiction by David Hayden.
The Medical Detective
Sandra Hempel
An extract from Sandra Hempel’s The Medical Detective, which follows the story of the man who identified – and helped stop – the cholera pandemic of the 1830s.
Highlights From Granta Books
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News, Prizes and Events
Frans de Waal wins PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
Frans de Waal’s Mama’s Last Hug, has won the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, exemplifying literary excellence on the subject of biological science.
Bruno Fert shortlisted for the Amnesty Media Awards
Bruno Fert’s photoessay ‘Refuge’ is one of four finalists in the photojournalism category of the Amnesty Media Awards.
Mbozi Haimbe, Kikuko Tsumura and Polly Barton win the 2020 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers
Kikuko Tsumura’s story ‘The Water Tower and the Turtle’, translated from the Japanese by Polly Barton, and Mbozi Haimbe’s story ‘Madam’s Sister’ are both winning stories.
Recommended Reading
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.
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 Dialectic
Zadie Smith
A story from Zadie Smith’s collection Grand Union, which has recently shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2020.
Notes on a Suicide
Rana Dasgupta
‘The problem was that, for the most part, it did not matter how widely broadcast your discontent was: no one cared.’
Rana Dasgupta on digital celebrity and a suicide in the banlieues of Paris.
Lost Children Archive
Valeria Luiselli
An extract from Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli, nominated for the Rathbones Folio Prize.
