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Essays & Memoir | Issue 157
Introduction: On Staying at Home
William Atkins
‘If the following pieces can be said to have an overriding characteristic, it is that they take seriously the experience of being a stranger.’
Guest editor William Atkins introduces the issue.
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.
Essays & Memoir | Issue 154
Introduction
Sigrid Rausing
‘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.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 153
Introduction
Isabella Tree
‘Never has there been a greater need for writers who can communicate about the environment in such clear, immediate and powerful ways, who can envisage the past as well as the future.’
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
On Meeting Margaret Busby
Sarah Ladipo Manyika
Margaret Busby was Britain’s first Black woman publisher. At the age of twenty, she was also one of its youngest.
Fiction | The Online Edition
Nocturne
Yūshō Takiguchi
Jesse Kirkwood’s translation of ‘Nocturne’ by Yūshō Takiguchi is the winner of the 2020 Harvill Secker Young Translators’ Prize.
Essays & Memoir | Issue 149
Introduction
Sigrid Rausing
‘Somewhere in-between is the truth. Somewhere in-between is the story, or at least the European story.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 149
Introduction
Sigrid Rausing
Editor Sigrid Rausing introduces Granta 147: 40th-Birthday Special.
Art & Photography | Issue 143
New Town Blues
Jason Cowley & Gus Palmer
‘They had believed they were coming to a new town. But, they said, Harlow wasn’t new: it looked old.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 143
The Peripatetic Penelope Fitzgerald
Lucy Scholes
Lucy Scholes on the highs, lows and package tours of Booker-prize-winning author Penelope Fitzgerald. ‘Fitzgerald’s life can only be attributed to the caprices of fate.’
Fiction | Issue 143
The Farm
Nicola Barker
‘Yes. Oh yes. That is who we once were. The Young must never, ever allow themselves to ignore what has brought them here.’
Five Things Right Now | Issue 143
Emma Cline | Five Things Right Now
Emma Cline
The author of The Girls and one of our 2017 Best of Young American Novelist shares five things she’s reading, watching and thinking about right now.
Essays & Memoir | Issue 143
He Had His Reasons
Colin Barrett
Colin Barrett on the Hawe family murder-suicide, and what the Irish media’s coverage tells us about the nation’s prejudices.
Essays & Memoir | Issue 143
The Refugee Crisis
A collection of responses to the Refugee Crisis from Granta contributors.
Essays & Memoir | Issue 143
The Power of a Grandmother Named Tranquilina
Valerie Miles
'Never underestimate the power of a grandmother to leave her mark on coming generations, or the taste of her cooking to cause an epiphany big enough to give the world a shiver.'
In Conversation | Issue 143
Granta Finland | Interview
Aleksi Pöyry & Francisco Vilhena
‘What is often particular to Finnish Weird is that it portrays a realistic, palpable setting which gradually starts to acquire elements of fantasy.’
In Conversation | Issue 143
Katherine Faw Morris | Interview
Katherine Faw Morris & Yuka Igarashi
‘I wanted her to be a pit bull.’
In Conversation | Issue 143
A.M. Homes | Interview
A.M. Homes & Yuka Igarashi
‘I don’t want to make suffering a positive (or negative); I very much want to acknowledge it without judgment.’
In Conversation | Issue 143
Granta Norway | Interview
Trude Rønnestad & Ted Hodgkinson
‘To an extent I have tried to make the issue span the full spectrum of Norwegian literature.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 143
Brazilian Writers Define Betrayal
Various Contributors
‘So that was betrayal: in a magical realm, assassins and elves were involved in a conspiracy to overthrow the king. Or something like that.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 143
Defining Betrayal
Various Contributors
‘I think of betrayal as a crack in the veneer of humanity, an act that reveals to us, and others, our base animal nature.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 143
Books I Read This Year
Various Contributors
A selection of Granta contributors discuss the books they read in 2012.
In Conversation | Issue 143
Anthony Shadid | Interview
Anthony Shadid & Ted Hodgkinson
‘It’s very difficult to say what kind of Iraq is going to emerge from this trauma. I think we have to wait a generation.’
In Conversation | Issue 143
I Read Granta
Hear why Mark Haddon likes to go down to the pub after reading the latest issue of Granta, and where Junot Díaz first discovered the magazine.
In Conversation | Issue 143
Granta Italy 3 | Interview
Paolo Zaninoni & Ted Hodgkinson
‘I do not feel our authors set out to reflect their age or their epoch: they are not into literature as sociology.’
In Conversation | Issue 143
Hari Kunzru | Interview
Hari Kunzru & Ted Hodgkinson
‘It was interesting to me how readily UFOs can be mapped onto a spiritualism, Madame Blavatsky and so on.’
In Conversation | Issue 143
Letters From Two Exit Strategists
Jacob Newberry & Vanessa Manko
‘I feel like I’ll spend a great many years unravelling whatever is being stored inside of me just now.’
In Conversation | Issue 143
Don DeLillo | Interview
Don DeLillo & Yuka Igarashi
‘The stories are representative of one slice of mind. The novels are mind, body, day and night, and what I ate for lunch.’
