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Issue 140

Davos Woman

Trisha De Borchgrave

‘Did she process my gentle hand in the same way as the objectifying touch of the men before me? Did she know the difference?’

Issue 140

Prozac Culture

Brian Dillon

Brian Dillon on the Prozac craze of the 90s, and his experience taking the infamous antidepressant.

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The Nobel Laureate Club | Discoveries

This week we bring together some of the best writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries – a collection of stories and essays by Nobel laureates.

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Kazuo Ishiguro Wins the Nobel Prize

The Nobel Committee announced the award by saying that Ishiguro, ‘in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world.’

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Getting Away With It

Timothy Phillips

A case of Russian espionage from Tim Phillips' book The Secret Twenties: British Intelligence, the Russians, and the Jazz Age.

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The Survivals of Lafcadio Hearn

Kenny Fries

‘Did Hearn feel comfortable in Japan because being a foreigner overshadowed his physical difference?’

Issue 140

Out of the Cell

Pico Iyer

‘I was inside a silence that was not an absence of noise so much as the living presence of everything I habitually walked – or sleep-walked – past.’

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Tech Sociopaths | Discoveries

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

Issue 140

Trollhättan

Andrew Brown

Andrew Brown on Swedish society and the Trollhättan school attack.

Issue 140

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

Issue 140

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.

Issue 140

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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