Issue 142

Daniyal Mueenuddin

‘Early one morning in the month of June, someone ran over a huge black rooster on County Road W in Wisconsin hill country.’

Lisa Moore

‘I wanted to explore what a “likeness” is, and how the act of capturing a person through a portrait might compare to writing a character.’

D. Mortimer

‘If we’re gonna imagine this beautiful queer paradise what form does a man take?’

Téa Obreht

Téa Obreht on a chance encounter with a moose in Wyoming, for Granta 142: Animalia

Eugene Lim

‘In the future we have to be as interesting to the AI as our pets are to us.’

Amitava Kumar

‘I wanted sex as my subject, not only the innocence but also the bruising.’

Momtaza Mehri

Momtaza Mehri considers the legacy of M.I.A.

Brittany Newell

‘What sex tapes offer, on a hauntological level, is an impossible closeness to that which is neither dead nor alive.’

Hiromi Kawakami

‘He comes all the way here after he died and the two of you are making small talk?’ New fiction by Hiromi Kawakami, translated from the Japanese by Allison Markin Powell

Nicholas Mosley

‘This journey around the outskirts of the Jungle went in a little and came out wondering, well that is not what I would have called a jungle.’

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TaraShea Nesbit

‘My intention was to protect myself, and not to have to go back on my word.’

Dorothea Lasky

‘In this life // There is always time // To make a comeback’

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Nathaniel Mackey

Esther Kinsky

‘Estuary English, the tongue of the river mouth, open vowels, clipped syllables that nonetheless spilled into one: I found it hard to listen to. The words snapped at my ears: malicious fish.’