Issue 62

Richard Lloyd Parry

Issue 127

David Peace

‘At last, at last. His first steps, on Chinese soil.’

Akhil Sharma

Akhil Sharma, a Granta Best Young American Novelist and author of new novel Family Life, shares five things he’s reading, watching and thinking about.

Issue 3

Emma Tennant

‘Agony belonged to night and would take advantage of the union, increase the whirligig of pain.’

Ben Pester

A trip on a commuter train takes a surreal turn in new fiction by Ben Pester.

David Seabrook

‘A seaside shelter in the middle of autumn – it seems a strange choice.’

Issue 135

Donal Ryan

‘Thoughts sharpen themselves on the flints of one another and pierce me like a knife in my middle, sunk deep and twisted around.’

Issue 106

William Pierce

‘He was typing up another proposal for robots that would replace human workers in an engine factory.’

Eugene Richards

From hospitals for the criminally insane to elderly sisters with brain disorders, Eugene Richard's portraits are a haunting and intimate look inside America.

Amy Sackville

‘What is your guiltiest pleasure? Is it really a pleasure if you feel bad about it?’

Issue 56

Jeremy Seabrook

‘I was never a revolutionary, not really a Marxist.’

Adam Stumacher

‘All those years of manipulating the tuning crank have given him the patience to settle in for these more involved jobs, and patience is perhaps the most important quality in a human shield.’

Issue 38

Jeremy Rifkin

‘Ray Kroc, one of the founders of the McDonald's hamburger chain, changed American eating habits as effectively as Henry Ford changed the way Americans travel.’

Andrea Stuart

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.