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Bomb Gone
Owen Sheers
‘We had been driving along the Bay of Wrecks on the eastern coast of Christmas Island for over an hour and a half when we saw the flock of terns.’
Mordros: The Sound of the Sea
Kurt Jackson
Kurt Jackson is an environmentalist, ecologist and one of Britain’s leading artists.
Peter Hobbs | Interview
Peter Hobbs & Roy Robins
‘Illness is solitary, because suffering is something you always do alone.’
The East Anglians
Justin Partyka
For nearly a decade, Justin Partyka has been photographing rural lives in East Anglia.
Ghost Species | Video
Robert Macfarlane
Robert Macfarlane discusses his piece ‘Ghost Species’, published in Granta 102, and reflects on the future of nature writing.
Netherley
Paul Farley
For Granta 102, Paul Farley and Niall Griffiths returned to Netherley, on Liverpool’s north-eastern rim and the fringes of rural Lancashire, and to what remains of the housing estate where they grew up.
Jonathan Raban | Interview
Jonathan Raban & Helen Gordon
‘The term ‘man of letters’ now seems hopelessly archaic, but I’d like to think there’s still life left in the notion of the writer who’s just a writer.’
Evan James Roskos | Interview
Evan James Roskos & Roy Robins
‘There is a view of American men presented by the media – of men as boorish, insensitive, emotionally immature – that manages to underscore various stereotypes that I feel fiction and poetry have a duty to dismantle.’
Preparing for war in Iraq
Seamus Murphy
‘Playing the game instantly bestows honour upon the players, with the possibility of new recruits for the American forces in Iraq.’
Jim Magee’s Hill
Pamela Petro
‘No one who’s seen The Hill has been able to describe it to me without visceral discomfort. Actually, no one’s been able to describe it at all.’
Encounter: The visions of Kurt Jackson
Mark Cocker
‘A thing of colour and elemental contest and of beauty.’
Subject+Object
Seamus Heaney
‘Birch is the tree of desire, ashimmer with sexual possibility even when it arrives swathed in botanical Latin.’
Pathologies
Kathleen Jamie
‘It felt surprisingly good to be part of that rough tribe of the mortal.’
The Tree of the Cross
Richard Mabey
‘Spending the first half of my life in the Chilterns, in southern England’s chalk country, I grew up with yews.’
Ghost Species
Robert Macfarlane
‘On a cold morning last January, I travelled out to the Norfolk Fens to see a ghost.’
Phantom Pain
Lydia Peelle
‘Something’s out there. Something has shown up in the woods of Highland City.’
Land’s End
Philip Marsden
‘Never by any chance will any wanderer from the world discover him in that illimitable wilderness.’
Conspiracy of Males | New Voices
Evan James Roskos
‘Nothing was your fault. You defended no one. By default, you defended us.’
On Sweden, state power and Susan Sontag
Sigrid Rausing
‘Sweden in a sense was a celebrity state because it had become globally symbolic of the welfare state, of high taxes, of sexual education and liberation.’
Lana Asfour | Interview
Lana Asfour & Roy Robins
‘I do find in fiction the greatest freedom and therefore the greatest potential meaning.’
Elegy
Sean O’Brien
‘It seems there's no such thing as history. / We must have dreamed the world you've vanished from.’
Reconstruction | New Voices
Lana Asfour
‘There’s nothing like watching the summer sunset with a glass of jellab.’
Evie Wyld | Interview
Evie Wyld & Roy Robins
‘When I was at school I found I received the same satisfaction from writing a short story that I did doing awful self-portraits – only the results were much better.’
Charlotte Roche | Interview
Charlotte Roche & Philip Oltermann
‘I love that image. Me flying over Germany, throwing sex bombs into people’s minds.’
Rosalind Porter | What I’m Reading
Rosalind Porter
‘Despite the difficulties booksellers have selling the stuff, the short story isn’t going to disappear anytime soon.’
