Issue 59

Caroline Lamarche

‘A little entrance hall. A staircase. To the left of the staircase, a door with a window leading into the concierge's room.’

Issue 59

Ivan Klíma

'Bára went to the church on the advice of her friend Ivana. She had been suffering from occasional bouts of depression', Ivan Klíma in 'Don't Forsake Me' in Granta 59: France: The Outsider.

Issue 58

J.M. Coetzee

‘He expects astonishment and sympathy; instead he gets mirth.’

Issue 58

Joyce Carol Oates

‘You won't know me, won't see my face. Unless you see my face. And then it will be too late.’

Issue 58

John Biguenet

‘She got skinny and became a clairvoyant. And she wasn't even a stigmatic.’

Issue 57

James Buchan

‘I see in an instant what has brought people to the valley for four centuries.’

Issue 57

Anita Desai

‘He had his hands deep in his pockets, and his face was lined with a frown deeply embedded with dust.’

Issue 57

R. K. Narayan

‘Nagaraj had begun to have doubts about his standing in his ancestral home’

Issue 57

Amit Chaudhuri

‘Her eyes, in a face puffed with sleep, opened, red and unfocused.’

Issue 59

John McGahern

Issue 56

John Banville

‘Feeling almost skittish all day. Exhausted now yet feverish also, like a child at the end of a party.’

Issue 56

Duncan McLean

‘I thought I heard the woman next door crying’

Issue 56

Philip Hensher

‘I liked his humourless intelligence, so redundant and so excessive in an MP.’

Issue 56

Hanif Kureishi

‘When the phone rings, who do you most want it to be?’