Issue 107

Terrence Holt

‘Fast asleep, even comatose, a living body moves.’

Marlon James

‘The thrill of Thriller was being part of something global and local at once.’

Issue 106

Fanny Howe

‘Every cupboard is old, / every glass and cup / wiped clean.’

Issue 106

Ha Jin

‘Meifen had never imagined that his life could be so fragile.’

Laura Fellowes

‘This is a wartime story. It is the spring of 1943 and Europe is burning; look down and see.’

Heidi Julavits

‘We continued to ski. The bon vivantedness of our exchanges became increasingly coded with a double-edged worry. Would we have to spend the night in the woods?’

Austin Grossman

‘So tomorrow we might be on the same side. Unless you’re a triple agent, in which case we already were on the same side.’

Kazuo Ishiguro

The letter that accompanied Ishiguro’s first submission to Granta.

Issue 105

Janet Frame

‘Nothing has changed, Edgar said. What new event is written into their history? None. Where is their future? Nowhere. Are they against or for progress? It was dark when Edgar took the box outside down to the rubbish heap and sprinkled the dead moths upon the ashes of the diseased pawpaw.’ Janet Frame on an unsettling natural process.

Issue 105

Rick Gekoski

‘It drives me crazy when I can’t make it stop.’

Jack Gilbert

‘Loneliness is the mother’s milk of America. / The heart is a foreign country whose language none / of us is good at. ’

Issue 103

Simon Gray

Issue 68

Ruth Gershon

Can you still find this day, Habibi, among your possessions?’.

Issue 48

Sousa Jamba

'Please, do whatever you can to help me get out of here'.