Articles
In Conversation
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Issue 31
Salman Rushdie | Interview
Salman Rushdie & Blake Morrison
Blake Morrison interviews Salman Rushdie in 1990, one year after he was placed under fatwa.
Essays & Memoir | Issue 143
Court
Blake Morrison
‘One by one they’re led into the box. They swear their oath. They confirm their name, their employment, why they were where they say they were, what it was they saw.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 143
Dad’s the Word
Soumya Bhattacharya
‘There is no escaping the fact that parenting involves treasuring those rare moments of solitude.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 143
Are We Related?
Liz Jobey
‘Most family relationships are difficult, and sometimes they can become the most difficult human relationships of all.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 143
Loved Ones: Introduction
Ian Jack
One of the world's unfair divisions is that between the writer and the written-about, and this is nowhere more true than in the literary form called the memoir.
Essays & Memoir
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Issue 143
Motley Notes
Ian Jack
‘The last issue of Granta celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary and retraced a little of its pre-1979 history as a magazine for and by the students of Cambridge University.’
Essays & Memoir
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Issue 143
When Did You Last See Your Father?
Blake Morrison
‘When did you last see your father? Was it when they burned the coffin? Put the lid on it? When he exhaled his last breath? When he last sat up and said something? When he last recognized me? When he last smiled? When he last did something for himself unaided?‘
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Talismans of Blood and Memory
Philip Kurian
On the worldwide campaign to return sacred objects to the ancestral communities from which they were taken.
