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In Conversation
Eva Baltasar & Irene Solà
‘The tide carries my books from my head to a place that is no longer mine.’
The authors discuss friendship, the sea and finishing their novels.
Blue Room, Fake Blue Veins
Peter Scalpello
‘[left home rented a room / spinning with mould] it almost turned me / straight.’ A new poem by Peter Scalpello.
Interview
Colm Tóibín & William Atkins
‘I think he saw the German spirit as one in which suffering or an appreciation of suffering was essential.’
Small Girl Landlady
Adachioma Ezeano
‘Trouble was awake – we didn’t need anyone to tell us.’
New fiction by Adachioma Ezeano.
Interview
Stephen Gill
Photographer Stephen Gill, whose photo-book Please Notify the Sun came out in 2021, speaks to Granta.
Beautiful Short Loser
Ocean Vuong
‘For as long as I can remember my body was a small town nightmare.’
A new poem by Ocean Vuong.
Personal Growth
Marina Benjamin
‘Refusal is the last recourse of the powerless.’
Marina Benjamin on her years of not eating, and not growing.
Thomas
Eloghosa Osunde
‘It’s a story that happens to you once and then lives with you forever.’
An excerpt from Vagabonds! by Eloghosa Osunde.
You Must, You Will
Ben Hinshaw
‘Once the Frosties had been eaten, she had no choice but to run.’
Fiction by Ben Hinshaw.
Lecture on Loneliness
Claire Schwartz
‘Only history makes her lonely, only after makes her first.’
A poem by Claire Schwartz.
Notes on Craft
Nataliya Deleva
‘I didn’t want to write Arrival from a place of exile or outcast.’ Nataliya Deleva on writing in her adoptive language.
Two Poems
Emily Berry
‘I do not see / the slow wheels in my blood turning, but / I ride them’
Two poems by Emily Berry.
The Yearner
Rachel Long
‘I stacked three pillows, made sure / my head was heavy with bills, wine’.
A poem by Rachel Long.
The Trip to Rose Cottage
Cal Flyn
‘People washed up here, and remained.’
Cal Flyn visits the abandoned island of Swona.
In a Letter
Kate Zambreno
‘How is it possible we lived in that same house? Although every house in that neighborhood looked more or less alike.’ A story by Kate Zambreno.
Literary Exhibitionism
Nataliya Meshchaninova
‘In my diary I was always sassy, proud, and forbidding.’
E-Friends
Emily Adrian
‘I had also, a week earlier, been fired for trying to sleep with my boss’s husband. I got the idea from a book, or maybe every book.’
New fiction by Emily Adrian.
Acts of Desperation
Megan Nolan
‘I wish I could step inside this memory and steady myself, put a cool reassuring hand on my own and convince myself to wait.’
An excerpt from Megan Nolan’s Acts of Desperation, shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writers Award.
Introduction
Sigrid Rausing
‘I don’t think we have quite processed yet what those months of isolation did to us – a time of fear and daily death tolls and also of unprecedented curtailment of our freedom of movement. But there were consolations.’
Editor Sigrid Rausing introduces the issue.
The Hour of the Wolf
Fatima Bhutto
‘Though I have had dogs all my life, Coco is my first real companion.’
Fatima Bhutto on grief.
Pure Colour
Sheila Heti
‘She had never seen that colour before. It was the colour of a father dying.’
An excerpt from Sheila Heti’s forthcoming novel.
In the Heart of the Hall of Mirrors
Chris Dennis
‘If the heart has a great hall then it must also have a dungeon.’
Memoir by Chris Dennis.
Waiting Room
Will Rees
‘A patient must heave their entire body into their mouth.’
Will Rees in search of a diagnosis.
The Physician
Nathan Harris
‘The boy is long dead, of course. Buried outside of town in a pile with the rest of the bodies.’
Historical fiction by Nathan Harris.
The Emperor Concerto
Julie Hecht
‘Upbringing is important, and I’ve never gotten over mine.’
Fiction by Julie Hecht.
what if mary auntie called me on my birthday
Akwaeke Emezi
‘i buy my own selling / spiels, i mean them all, i am so bored’
An Olive Grove in Ends
Moses McKenzie
‘The infamous Hughes family – known to police and hospital staff across the city.’
Fiction set in Bristol by Moses McKenzie.
