From the editor’s desk
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Throughout its history, Granta corresponded with many writers who today are household names, including Salman Rushdie, Susan Sontag, Martha Gellhorn and John Updike. Here is a selection that shows some of the ups and downs of magazine life.
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Laundry Bills and Manifestos
Francesca Wade
‘The great pleasure of archive work lies in searching for these secrets known and unknown.’
Scapegoat
Katharine Quarmby
‘In 2000 the Disability Rights Commission was founded, to push for equal rights for disabled people. It had a major job on its hands, listening to and acting on individual cases – access, transport, discrimination – and getting the 2005 Disability Discrimination Act onto the statute book.’
Pinky Agarwalia: Biography of a Child Saint in Ten Parts
Bhanu Kapil
‘Every person who travelled here is unsteady, I can feel that.’
Who We’re Reading When We’re Reading Murakami
David Karashima
‘Luke believes that the early stories might not have been published if the author and translator were uncompromising.’
Amnion
Stephanie Sy-Quia
‘In the place where I grew up there were horses, thighs moving like nudity under their fur’
Full Disclosure
Zoë Heller
‘The speech he gave was bellicose. It was time, he told the people in the conference room, for them to pull their socks up.’
