Issue 90

Richard Powers

‘Think of mitosis as trillions of slightly near-sighted, plagiarizing students’

Issue 90

Kathleen Jamie

‘It could almost have been Neolithic, an ancient and mysterious earthworks.’

Issue 90

Tim Adams

‘He told the police officer that he was a vegan and the next morning a little slit in the prison door opened, with his breakfast: a metal tray on which there were three frozen potatoes.’

Tim Adams on the fox hunting ban in Granta 90: Country Life.

Issue 90

Matthew Reisz

‘They touched on some of the crucial questions about sex we are still struggling with.’

Issue 90

Doris Lessing

‘To attack the chair I equipped myself with a saw, sharp scissors and a claw hammer.’

Helen Simpson

‘The thing about a circular walk is that you end up where you started.’

Issue 90

Robert Macfarlane

‘Moonrise woke me at one that morning.’

Issue 90

Jeremy Seabrook

‘If provincial life still exists, it does so only residually and is doomed to eventual extinction.’

Issue 89

Ian Jack

‘What was it like to work in such a place?’

Issue 89

Isabel Hilton

‘Visiting a factory was one thing; working in one quite another.’

Issue 89

Desmond Barry

‘The atmosphere in the house was thick with my father's depression.’

Issue 89

Andrew Martin

‘Q: When is a factory not a factory? A: When it’s a chocolate factory.’

Issue 89

Luc Sante

‘I was fated to work in a factory.’

Neil Steinberg