New Writing on Granta.com
Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition
Work, or the Swet Shop Boys
Hilary Plum
‘My work life – like, maybe, yours – is built around another, non-paying vocation.’
In Conversation|The Online Edition
In Conversation
Katharina Volckmer & Eliza Clark
‘People are obsessed with authenticity – in a post-reality-TV, post-confessional-journalism world, fiction is simply not enough.’
Poetry|The Online Edition
Five Poems
Sawako Nakayasu
Translated by Sawako Nakayasu & Lynn Xu
‘Although bara is homonymous with rose, this is not a rose-rose incident.’
Fiction|The Online Edition
Messrs. External & Bodily
Helen Marten
‘Space is marked and people do their best, but somewhere somebody made a false prophecy for the land’.
In Conversation
Avni Doshi & Sophie Mackintosh
‘I do wonder to what extent writing about motherhood is actually writing about being mothered’.
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
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.’
Feeling Bullish: On My Great-Uncle, Gay Matador and Friend of Hemingway
Rebekah Frumkin
‘In his suit, with his pigtail and his montera, he was pure potential: he could be masculine vanquisher or gold-embroidered fairy. He was both, actually, at all times, and nobody who came to see him fight thought any less of him for it.’
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?’
Whatever Happened to Queer Happiness?
Kevin Brazil
‘You never can wholly control the things you cling to. But you can figure out what has made you the surface you are.’
Highlights From Granta Books
Recommended Reading
Three Poems
Hannah Regel
‘It makes no difference / If the devil has been defeated or if it is your character’
Three Poems
Vivek Narayanan
‘half-sunk / into ground for all those years / of negative subsistence’
News, Prizes and Events
Daniel O’Malley and Alexia Tolas Shortlisted for 2020 Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award
Two stories published by Granta are shortlisted for the 2020 Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award.
Thea Lim in Best Canadian Stories 2020
‘If You Start Breathing’ by Thea Lim has been selected to feature in Best Canadian Stories 2020.
Joseph Leo Koerner in Best American Essays 2020
Joseph Leo Koerner’s essay ‘Maly Trostinets’ has been selected to feature in Best American Essays 2020.
