Fiction | Granta Books

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

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 | The Online Edition

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

Ed Vulliamy

Ed Vulliamy on the nine best songs to listen to while you write.

Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

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

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

Jack Shenker

‘My Cairo is an inverted city, one that wears its innards above the skin.’

Fiction | Issue 138

Amit Chaudhuri

‘You don’t plunge into growing up; it happens in spite of you.’

Fiction | Issue 138

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

Jeremy Seabrook

‘Love was no longer encoded in recognised behaviours, but became subject to private desires and idiosyncratic needs.’

Fiction | Issue 138

Ann DeWitt

‘By the end of the summer, the city was fed up with our antics.’

Fiction | Issue 128

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

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

Adam Foulds

‘His life, unexciting as it may have been so far, was still a detailed, complicated thing.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 123

In Conversation | Issue 123

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

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

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

Rupert Thomson

‘My mother’s brother was christened Cedric, but people always called him Joe.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 112

Ariel Leve

‘Pretentiousness was non-existent. Morals were unambiguous and pure.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 112

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’.

Essays & Memoir | Issue 104

Siri Hustvedt

‘We are myriad, all of us.’

In Conversation | Issue 104

Charlotte Roche & Philip Oltermann

‘I love that image. Me flying over Germany, throwing sex bombs into people’s minds.’

Fiction | Issue 104

Olga Grushin

‘For one instant, while all this seemed possible, he listened to the violent unfolding of his heart.’

Fiction | Issue 104

Gary Shteyngart

‘Today, I’ve made a major decision: I am never going to die.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 104

Ivan Vladislavić

‘When a house has been alarmed, it becomes explosive.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 104

John Biguenet

‘To the inexperienced, hurricane stories always sound like exaggerations.’

Fiction | Issue 104

Toby Litt

‘For some little while now I have been chasing a hare—buck or doe, I do not know.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 104

Jason Cowley

‘How did it feel to have a Jewish grandfather who owed his life to the friendship, or gratitude, or mercy, of Adolf Hitler?’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 104

Nicholas Shakespeare

‘By coming to Tasmania, I'd repeated the pattern of an ancient, unknown relative and the discovery pleased me in a profound and mysterious way.’