Search Results for “the great homecoming”
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Fiction | Granta Books
The Great Homecoming
Anna Kim
Read an excerpt from The Great Homecoming by Anna Kim, a novel of love and loss in the wake of the Korean war.
Essays & Memoir | Granta Books
World Cup Hero
Ian Hamilton
‘The antitheses had been there all along but in July 1990, after Gascoigne’s World Cup triumph, they were given a new formulation.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 165
Today We Just Say Germany
Alexander Kluge
‘A philosopher will reflect on the world from any place.’
Alexander Kluge on Germany, translated by Peter Kuras.
Essays & Memoir | Issue 164
Reports from the Front: Winter 2023
Peter Englund
‘I repeat: the landscape of war is an acoustic landscape.’
Peter Englund on the war in Ukraine, translated from the Swedish by Sigrid Rausing.
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
The Stars Are Blind
Anna Dorn
‘A few years ago, while in between jobs, I started doing astrology readings for cash.’
Anna Dorn on her astrology journey.
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
My Writing Playlist
Ed Vulliamy
Ed Vulliamy on the nine best songs to listen to while you write.
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Lucia Berlin Writes Home
Nina Ellis
Nina Ellis on the life and writing of Lucia Berlin. ‘If Berlin's collections were houses, their hallways would change direction without warning, and their rooms would be bright and dark at the same time.’
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Han Suyin: A Friendship
Aamer Hussein
'Han Suyin, elegant postcolonial diva avant la lettre, icon of the new, nonaligned Asia, thorn in the side of the dying British Empire and the American Right.'
Essays & Memoir | Issue 140
Coming Home to the Counter-Revolution
Jack Shenker
‘My Cairo is an inverted city, one that wears its innards above the skin.’
Fiction | Issue 138
Friend of My Youth
Amit Chaudhuri
‘You don’t plunge into growing up; it happens in spite of you.’
Fiction | Issue 138
The Weak Spot
Sophie Mackintosh
‘There was a certain kind of teenage girl who would relish not just the killing, but the trophy taking, choosing a tooth and using the pliers herself.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 138
Love in the Graveyards of Industry
Jeremy Seabrook
‘Love was no longer encoded in recognised behaviours, but became subject to private desires and idiosyncratic needs.’
Fiction | Issue 138
Birdie
Ann DeWitt
‘By the end of the summer, the city was fed up with our antics.’
Fiction | Issue 128
Exotics
Callan Wink
‘He’d come to tell her that he was leaving. It seemed rather impossible now – the telling, not the leaving.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 128
Dutch Harbor Nights
Jim Ruland
‘When one of the fishermen starts belting out ‘All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Out Tonight’, it feels like a prophecy come to life.’
Fiction | Issue 123
A World Intact
Adam Foulds
‘His life, unexciting as it may have been so far, was still a detailed, complicated thing.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 123
Home: Reflections for Anthony Shadid
Various Contributors
‘I realize it is my fault: whenever I live in any country, everything turns wrong. I see it as a gift.’
In Conversation | Issue 123
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.’
Fiction | Issue 123
OIF
Phil Klay
‘A few months later I was strapped up, M4 in condition 1, surrounded by 03s, backpack full of cash, twitchiest guy in Iraq.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 112
Kashmir’s Forever War
Basharat Peer
‘Yes, the gun was from Pakistan, but the stones are our own. That is our only weapon against the occupation.’
Fiction | Issue 112
Call Me By My Proper Name
Rupert Thomson
‘My mother’s brother was christened Cedric, but people always called him Joe.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 112
Where I’m Calling From
Ariel Leve
‘Pretentiousness was non-existent. Morals were unambiguous and pure.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 112
Arguing With The Dead
Dan Jacobson
‘My childhood was spent in Kimberley, the diamond-mining town in South Africa.In those years most of the mines were no longer being worked’.
In Conversation | Issue 104
Charlotte Roche | Interview
Charlotte Roche & Philip Oltermann
‘I love that image. Me flying over Germany, throwing sex bombs into people’s minds.’
Fiction | Issue 104
Exile
Olga Grushin
‘For one instant, while all this seemed possible, he listened to the violent unfolding of his heart.’
Fiction | Issue 104
From The Diaries of Lenny Abramov
Gary Shteyngart
‘Today, I’ve made a major decision: I am never going to die.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 104
Joburg
Ivan Vladislavić
‘When a house has been alarmed, it becomes explosive.’