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Tech Sociopaths | Discoveries

A round-up of great writing from around the web – links from the Granta editors.

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Trollhättan

Andrew Brown

Andrew Brown on Swedish society and the Trollhättan school attack.

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Garth Risk Hallberg | Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists

Garth Risk Hallberg & Luke Neima

‘I am very interested in the question of reality on the one hand and imagination on the other, so the mirror has to be angled slightly to take in something that isn’t already there’

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Jesse Ball | Interview

Jesse Ball

‘Confusion is the only natural response to the world, the alternative would be to just fall in with everyone else’s plans.’

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Water, Water, Everywhere

Darrell Hartman

Darrell Hartman on water: from diving to climate change, hurricanes Irma and Harvey to the advent of ‘Blue Mind’.

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The BBC National Short Story Award Shortlist

Here are the authors on this year's BBC National Short Story Award Shortlist

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Two Poems

Jillian Weise

‘You want to get married? / We could die here // for lack of light’

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Blameless

Claudio Magris

‘People think they’re destroying, but it’s hard work, nearly impossible; building is easy, illusory but easy.’

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Second Mother

Sinéad Gleeson

‘The cortex shrinks where the cells used to be. The spaces in between expand. Islands in the sea of the mind. An archipelago of the former self.’ Sinéad Gleeson on Alzheimer's disease.

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Battle of the Booker: Meet the Shortlist

The fight-to-the-literary-death that is the Man Booker continues – six authors remain in the race.

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If Mother’s Happy

Kathleen McCaul Moura

‘Towards the end of my pregnancy, like many women, my emotions were taut, stretched thin like the skin round my middle.’

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Godzilla and Sadism | Discoveries

Godzilla, Kathy Acker, Roald Dahl, Frank Bidart and a tribute to John Ashbery in this week's Discoveries – a round-up of writing by the Granta editors.

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