Angélica Freitas

‘woman is basically meant / to be a residential complex / all the same / all plastered over / just in different colors’

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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?

Liliana Heker

‘It occurred to Ana that this was a woman who often left things hanging.’

Minal Hajratwala

‘Please be creative. This is only the beginning.’

Jon Fosse

‘You were a chasm that cracked and turned into stones, and then the stones lay there, beautifully laid, in a wall.’

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Janine di Giovanni

‘It seemed there was a little piece of Iraqi earth inside me that refused to let me go.’

Issue 131

Noémie Goudal

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

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Charles Glass

‘No Armenian can forget 1915.’

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Peter Gizzi

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

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Sebastià Jovani

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

Sarah Hall

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

Ian Jack

Ian Jack's introduction to Granta 130: India.

Anjum Hasan

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Anjali Joseph

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