‘I am the full-time driver here. I am not going to kill my employers. I have read that drivers do that now.’
I am the full-time driver here. I am not going to kill my employers. I have read that drivers do that now. I will make just a few observations.
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Doctors, solitude and the stones within us – for fiction about isolation, it has to be Haruki Murakami. Translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin.
‘Things have changed without seeking permission.’ A plague diary of this March, by Gonçalo M. Tavares, translated from the Portuguese by Daniel Hahn.
‘Our view of the morning’s entertainment was restricted by the width of the door frame.’ Bruce Chatwin writes about his imprisonment during a coup in Benin.
‘A leech bodes this: you will, sooner or later, overflow yourself. ’ Rebecca Giggs on leeches and the borders of the human body.
‘Her eyes fluttered open and I felt like I was at the edge of the mouth of a cave, with every intention of jumping in.’ For pure escapism, lose yourself in the nineteenth-century Paris of Carmen Maria Machado.
Taiye Selasi talks about her mother’s garden, Rachmaninov and learning to speak Italian.
‘She has the most genuine intentions of any woman out there.’
Taiye Selasi, one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists, shares a playlist of songs to write to.
A selection of Granta contributors discuss the books they read in 2012.
‘I was rather surprised to discover that I’d painted such a devastating portrait.’
