Josie Mitchell
Josie Mitchell is an editor at Granta magazine, and writes elsewhere on books.
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Essays & MemoirEssays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
On Cardi B
Rita Indiana
‘A crude, catchy hymn written by a woman who’s confessed to writing about what she likes, and that what she likes is “fighting bitches”.’
Essays & MemoirEssays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Mariana Enríquez | Notes on Craft
Mariana Enriquez
‘I found a way to speak: the women talked for me’ Translated by Josie Mitchell.
FictionFiction | The Online Edition
Fiction | The Online Edition
Three Stories
Andrés Ibáñez
‘The rabbits are gentle and timid – in fact, they behave as rabbits normally do – but nonetheless their size is troubling.’
FictionFiction | The Online Edition
Fiction | The Online Edition
The Women Are in Insurrection | Discoveries
Josie Mitchell
Who has been nominated for the The Women’s Prize 2018 longlist?
Essays & MemoirEssays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
T.S. Eliot was a terrible hip-hop artist | Discoveries
Eleanor Chandler & Josie Mitchell
The poetry world is abuzz this week in the wake of a controversial essay published in PN Review by British poet Rebecca Watts, denigrating a new generation of ‘amateur’ poets.
Essays & MemoirEssays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Equal Recognition | Discoveries
Josie Mitchell
In an article for the LA Review of Books, Deborah Smith discusses the politics of literary translation and the backlash she received after winning the Man Booker International Prize.
Essays & MemoirEssays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Doubling and Redoubling | Discoveries
Josie Mitchell
Photographs, e-fiction and daylight saving time. Our favourite pieces published elsewhere this week.
In ConversationIn Conversation | The Online Edition
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Andrés Barba on Such Small Hands
Andrés Barba & Josie Mitchell
Granta’s Josie Mitchell talked to Andrés Barba about his new book, Such Small Hands, Gothic and Greek Literature, and how he approaches writing from a child's perspective.
Essays & MemoirEssays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Reign of Trauma | Discoveries
Eleanor Chandler & Josie Mitchell
A round-up of our favourite essays, stories and videos published elsewhere.
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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Grinning Inanity | Discoveries
Josie Mitchell
This week – deconstructing Percy Pig, the middle-class gummy bear, and celebrating Philip Pullman, who has finally written another book.
In ConversationIn Conversation | The Online Edition
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Claire Vaye Watkins | Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists
Claire Vaye Watkins & Josie Mitchell
‘Even in fiction, a writer's job is to tell the truth’
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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Tech Sociopaths | Discoveries
Josie Mitchell
A round-up of great writing from around the web – links from the Granta editors.
In ConversationIn Conversation | The Online Edition
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Jesse Ball | Interview
Jesse Ball & Josie Mitchell
‘Confusion is the only natural response to the world, the alternative would be to just fall in with everyone else’s plans.’
Essays & MemoirEssays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Godzilla and Sadism | Discoveries
Josie Mitchell
Godzilla, Kathy Acker, Roald Dahl, Frank Bidart and a tribute to John Ashbery in this week's Discoveries – a round-up of writing by the Granta editors.
In ConversationIn Conversation | The Online Edition
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Esmé Weijun Wang | Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists
Esmé Weijun Wang & Josie Mitchell
‘I really love Southern Gothic literature and so part of me was like – well, what if I could create an Immigrant Gothic?’
In ConversationIn Conversation | The Online Edition
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Anthony Marra | Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists
Anthony Marra & Josie Mitchell
‘The terrain of literature is this space where you can pose these paradoxes of personal and political ethics’
In ConversationIn Conversation | The Online Edition
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Karan Mahajan | Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists
Karan Mahajan & Josie Mitchell
‘The through line in my work that I see is how easily we can turn people into the other’
In ConversationIn Conversation | The Online Edition
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Jen George | Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists
Jen George & Josie Mitchell
Jen George shares her process of translating visual art into text
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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Chris Kraus on Kathy Acker
Chris Kraus & Josie Mitchell
Chris Kraus discusses her new biography, After Kathy Acker, which looks at the life and work of the artist twenty years after her death.
Essays & MemoirEssays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Would You Care to Enlarge on That? | Discoveries
Josie Mitchell
Once a fortnight, we make a shameless plea for your elusive attention by sharing our favourite links from across the web.
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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Speed Dating the Man Booker Longlist | Discoveries
Josie Mitchell
The Man Booker longlist 2017 has been announced. We’ve put together a speed dating session, introducing you to the work of all thirteen novelists.
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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
People Who Have Met Drake | Discoveries
Josie Mitchell
Discoveries – cool stuff we found online. Featuring Margaret Atwood, Junot Díaz, Rebecca Curtis and more.
InterviewsInterviews | The Online Edition
Interviews | The Online Edition
Andrea Stuart In Conversation | Podcast
Andrea Stuart & Josie Mitchell
Josie Mitchell talks to Andrea Stuart about her essay ‘Travels in Pornland’. They discuss the value of feminist porn, the importance of counter narratives and the challenges faced by feminist pornographers.
Essays & MemoirEssays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Solar Stasis | Discoveries
Josie Mitchell
A cluster of links from across the world wide web, feat. Anthony Lane, Claudia Rankine, David Grossman and more.
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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Cyclical Wisdom | Discoveries
Josie Mitchell
A mash-up of Elif Batuman | Oscar Wilde | David Lynch | Marilynn Robinson | Margaret Atwood | and Viet Thanh Nguyen
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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Other-Dimensional Beings | Discoveries
Josie Mitchell
This week’s Discoveries brings you some top-notch urls from around the world wide web.
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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
The Hatchet Job | Discoveries
Josie Mitchell
This week's Discoveries celebrates the brutal literary tradition of the hatchet job.
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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
International Women’s Day 2017
Josie Mitchell
‘We want to share with you some of our favourite pieces – published by us and by others – that present clear-headed explorations of gender in our society’
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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
You’ve Got Mail | Discoveries
Josie Mitchell
A collection of fan mail, featuring correspondents James Joyce, Henrik Ibsen, Anthony Burgess, Shirley Jackson and more.
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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
This is the Way the World Ends | Discoveries
Josie Mitchell
‘How will the world end? Virus, war, natural disaster, Donald Trump in the library with the candlestick?’
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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Manifestos | Discoveries
Josie Mitchell
A collection of revolutionary writings and manifestos from Audre Lorde, Eileen Myles, Nelson Mandela, James Baldwin and Occupy Wall Street
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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Best Book of 1955: The Magician’s Nephew
Josie Mitchell
‘Much like Tolkien’s, admittedly vaster, legendarium, Lewis’s world is exquisitely conceived.’
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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Here Be Dragons | Discoveries
Josie Mitchell
A round-up of maps, literary, diagrammatic, chaotic and specific. Maps of London, maps of literature, maps of maps.
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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Polymorphous Perversity | Discoveries
Josie Mitchell
New erotica from Anaïs Nin; Emily Dickinson’s bedroom; Isaac Asimov’s dystopias, interracial love circa 1963 and more.
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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
The Fall of Rome | Discoveries
Josie Mitchell
Word of the Year 2016: Post-Truth; Don DeLillo on the enemy in the White House; Leonard Cohen, the novelist; Ariel Levy’s Thanksgiving in Mongolia.
Essays & MemoirEssays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
The Very Ecstasy of Love | Discoveries
Josie Mitchell
Zadie on Beyoncé, Didion on diarists, Bureaucracy as Sadism, How Did They Win that prize? and more.
Essays & MemoirEssays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Werewoolf? | Discoveries
Josie Mitchell
Sylvia Plath’s sass, Bob Dylan spars with Leonard Cohen, Guillermo del Toro talks vampires, Shirley Jackson scares the baby boomers
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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Thomas Pynchon Found! | Discoveries
Josie Mitchell
The politics of outing writers with pseudonyms, the power of Nell Zink’s first sentences, and Trump fiction.
Essays & MemoirEssays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
The Unknown Known | Discoveries
Josie Mitchell
A round-up of things we love, from all over the internet.
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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Who are the Campbells? | Discoveries
Josie Mitchell
Our latest discoveries from the literary internet, from the new selfishness epidemic to artistic theft.
