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Armadillo Man
Julianne Pachico
‘The Armadillo Man is watching her. She gives him a good show – the best she has to offer.’
Mountains Don’t Know Borders
Lois Parshley
‘In the Balkans, the present is often perched precariously on top of the past.’
Valencia Palace Hotel
Annie Perreault
A story by Annie Perreault, translated from the French by Rhonda Mullins, for the online edition of Granta 141: Canada.
Hôtel Valencia Palace
Annie Perreault
Ce jour-là, comme chaque jour, des poissons avaient nagé au-dessus des têtes.
Best book of 1936: Locos
Ingrid Persaud
Ingrid Persaud on why Felipe Alfau’s Locos is the best book of 1936.
The Sweet Sop
Ingrid Persaud
‘The memory of chocolate made the man crazy to see me. I became Reggie’s dealer. A voice on the phone would whisper, ‘Two Kit Kat’ and hang up.’
Two Poems
Pascale Petit
‘His sheets smell of formalin. / She feels as if her insides // are outside her, in a freezer.’
Getting Away With It
Timothy Phillips
A case of Russian espionage from Tim Phillips' book The Secret Twenties: British Intelligence, the Russians, and the Jazz Age.
Pop-Up People
Peter Pomerantsev
We are living through a period of pop-up populism, where each political movement redefines ‘the Many’ and ‘the People’, where we are always reconsidering who counts as an ‘insider’ or an ‘outsider’, where what it means to belong is never certain.
The False Lords of Misrule
Peter Pomerantsev
Peter Pomerantsev takes us on a tour of the lewd, crude language of modern politics – from Trump to Putin to Duterte, Milo Yianopoulos, Boris Johnson and more.
Brother | State of Mind
Max Porter
‘We don’t often talk seriously or in depth about our childhood these days, but we know we could, and we know what good it did us.’
Chère Madame
Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust’s letters to his neighbour, translated from the French by Lydia Davis.