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Johnny Kingdom
Chris Power
'Andy doesn't like any of the names for what he does. He rejects 'impersonator', and resists 'tribute act', although he knows it comes closest.' From Chris Power's exceptional collection of short fiction, Mothers
Kathryn Scanlan | Notes on Craft
Kathryn Scanlan
‘I try to write a sentence as unbudging and fully itself as some object sitting on a shelf in my office.’
Letter of Apology
Maria Reva
‘One can only argue with an intellectual like Konstantyn Illych if one speaks to him on his level.’
Mother’s Death
Stephen Sharp
‘Last year father attacked me as a “wet radish”. This caused me to give up writing diary entries.’
Murasaki’s Paper Trail
Martin Puchner
Martin Puchner on how Murasaki Shikibu, a lady-in-waiting at the Japanese court, manage to write the first great novel of world literature.
Normal People
Sally Rooney
‘After the first time they had sex, Marianne stayed the night in his house.’ New fiction from Sally Rooney.
Notes on Craft
Paul Dalla Rosa
‘I feel like I’m haunting an empty building, inert, waiting for each room to burst into flames.’
Oh, the Obvious
Christine Schutt
‘A wizened spring, the sickly prickly pear and organ pipe cacti were so riddled with holes they might have been targets.’
Our Donald: A Sex Story
Ross Raisin
‘Ducks are very sexual creatures. Domestic ducks, unlike wild ones, are polygamous.’
Painter to the King
Amy Sackville
This is an excerpt from Painter to the King, Amy Sackville's account of the life of Diego Velázquez. Now available from Granta Books.
Pay for Your Words
Peter Pomerantsev
Peter Pomerantsev downloads his Facebook data. ‘We seem to be caught in a trap: the more we use a word, the more we will be charged for it.’
Poppy
Caroline Criado Perez
'I never worried about my flat catching fire before Poppy came along.' Caroline Criado Perez on her pet Poppy.
