Snuffing Out the Moon
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First Sentence: Eliza Griswold
Eliza Griswold
‘This, of course, was years before anyone knew or cared who Boko Haram was.’
Crossings
Tim Beckett
‘This was the collective trauma of a community discovering, very abruptly, they’d have to uproot their lives.’ Tim Beckett on the ruins of Uranium City.
Violence in Blue
Patrick Ball
‘One-third of all Americans killed by strangers are killed by police.’
Podcast: The Legacy of Communism
Philip Ó Ceallaigh, Peter Pomerantsev & Oliver Bullough
Listen to Oliver Bullough, Peter Pomerantsev and Philip Ó Ceallaigh at the launch of Granta 134: No Man’s Land discuss the legacy of communism in eastern Europe.
Five Things Right Now: Diane Cook
Diane Cook
Diane Cook shares five things she’s reading, watching and thinking about right now.
Reception and Openings
Rae Armantrout
‘Because children suspect that objects conceal their powers and intentions, animators make an alarm clock run, screaming, in circles.’
The Conveyor Belt
Louise Stern
‘Tall men that looked like insects crept out of cracks in the stones.’
The Fencing Master
David Treuer
David Treuer on learning to fence with Maître Michel Sebastiani and learning to write with Toni Morrison.
Introduction: No Man’s Land
Sigrid Rausing
‘We tangle and project, in exile; we make it up as we go along.’
from White Butterflies of Night
Jaan Kaplinski
‘I don’t remember whether I believed that I could just / abandon one life to begin another’
Propagandalands
Peter Pomerantsev
From 2016: Peter Pomerantsev reports from Ukraine’s Donbas region.
Friday Afternoon with Boko Haram
Eliza Griswold
I spent the Hezbollah war in Nigeria eating hummus in a Syrian cafe and watching...
Base Life
George Makana Clark
‘This is why he will survive this war to return to his wife and daughter, barring a blind bullet, an errant piece of shrapnel, some careless act of destiny.’
Kobane: The Aftermath
Lorenzo Meloni & Claire Messud
‘If black is the colour of the Islamic State, then grey is the colour of destruction.’
The Ferryman
Azam Ahmed
‘I do not do this work for the government, or the Taliban, or even the men who I collect from the battlefield and return to their loved ones. All these years I have done this for God.’
Eight pieces in imitation of Thomas A. Clark
Matthew Welton
‘what it is about the earth / that it won’t absorb the stream’
Bucharest, Broken City
Philip Ó Ceallaigh
‘It is only consciousness and memory that hold together the things we sometimes see as solid.’
Reading Comprehension: Text No. 2
Alejandro Zambra
‘Which of the following famous phrases best reflects the meaning of the text?’
Last Day on Earth
Eric Puchner
‘Despite my efforts at denial the new reality of our lives was beginning to sink in.’
New Tarzon Guided Bomb Hits Bull’s-Eye!
Don Mee Choi
‘Watch this performance carefully, for you are witnessing a new concept of modern warfare.’
Coventry
Rachel Cusk
‘War is a narrative: it might almost be said to embody the narrative principle itself.’
Fairbourne
Adam Weymouth
‘Climate change, I realise, is already here. Not the drama of it, not yet, but in the mundane.’
The Secret Afterlife of Boats
Anna Badkhen
‘The sea is broken,’ they say. An empty net at night: a drooping lattice of shiny nothingness, a cold and worthless tinsel mesh.
Spirit Animals
Darrell Hartman
From The Revenant through Jurassic Park and Godzilla, Darrell Hartman traces the evolving meaning of megafauna in popular culture.
Matthew Green and Bryan Doerries
Matthew Green & Bryan Doerries
Matthew Green and Bryan Doerries discuss Greek tragedy, post-traumatic stress disorder and the cathartic power of drama.
Dynamics in the Storm
Greg Jackson
‘You only have time to live your own life, and mine was falling apart.’
Five Things Right Now: Ann Beattie
Ann Beattie
Ann Beattie shares five things she’s reading, watching and thinking about right now.
