Greg Jackson

‘I am being, I believe, about as forthright as I am being coy.’

Ian Jack

Ian Jack's introduction to Granta 130: India.

Issue 131

Noémie Goudal

In her series Observatoires, Noémie Goudal places stairs, pyramids and domes in natural, isolated, timeless spaces.

Issue 132

Daisy Jacobs

‘He’s not himself’, Mum says in the kitchen. Well, who is he then? Is he 40 per cent of his young self? Ten? Do I still have to love him as much as ever, this 90 per cent stranger?

Lorna Gibb

‘There were rules to the game. I could not lose my virginity and I had to be careful not to let a boy go further than I wanted to.’

Issue 131

Peter Gizzi

‘was it wind or a creature / am I here or is it over’

Issue 130

Anjum Hasan

‘motorcyclists like to howl / and dogs drop bulging bags of garbage / from their mouths when they see other dogs / they want to mount’

Sarah Hall

Sarah Hall, a Granta Best of Young British Novelist, shares five things she’s reading, watching and thinking about.

Daisy Hildyard

‘The sexual activity was dense and rapid everywhere that he was not.’

Issue 130

Anjali Joseph

‘Like scraps of leather, oddly shaped, things from life, people and sayings and objects, found themselves spliced together.’

Anjum Hasan

Ben Hoffman

‘Did you notice our daughter is not our daughter anymore?’

Issue 131

Sebastià Jovani

‘The aim of this study is to visualise a means of understanding the essential aspects of a literary text.’

Issue 131

Charles Glass

‘No Armenian can forget 1915.’