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Loggerheads
Rebecca Giggs
‘What idiom or instrument captures how the weather is felt by the animals, in their bodies, their nests and niches?’
The Leech Barometer
Rebecca Giggs
‘To be consumed by leeches is to be vital, to be animate, though it is also to be reminded you are something else’s prey, and therefore porous and mortal.’
Webs of Fiction
Emma Glass
‘The complexity of stories is not singularly reliant on an abundance of words.’
I’m Black So You Don’t Have to Be
Colin Grant
'Can the black author really write out of her or his colour? In writing about black characters can they ever escape race?' Colin Grant looks at the evolution of racial politics.
Candidate
Jessie Greengrass
‘All through winter and another summer we wait, but time passes more quickly now that we have a purpose. I feel it flowing.’
Stalingrad
Vasily Grossman
‘On the rampage, he truly did become a devil; it was impossible to restrain him.’ Translated from the Russian by Robert & Elizabeth Chandler.
Slaughterhouse
Arnon Grunberg
‘I wonder whether there’s a real moral difference between killing an animal and killing a human being.’ Translated from the Dutch by Sam Garrett.
Abscessed Tooth
Debra Gwartney
‘Silence allows me to pretend that this happened to someone else a long time ago, and not to me.’
Cumbrian Fell Pony
Sarah Hall
Sarah Hall writes about the Cumbrian fell pony for Granta 142: Animalia.