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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Traces
Ruchir Joshi
‘Calcutta is an hourglass and each person is a grain of sand. Each day, we all pour through the opening.’
Photographs and memoir by Ruchir Joshi.
Introduction
Valerie Miles
‘We wanted work of the imagination. Fiction. Consciousness captured on the page.’
Guest editor and co-founder of Granta en Español introduces the issue.
Uninhabitants
Gonzalo Baz
‘The day we moved into the neighborhood, the house next door was in ruins, it was an inaccessible, absent place.’
Fiction by Gonzalo Baz, translated by Christina MacSweeney.
Ruins in Reverse
Carlos Fonseca
‘I couldn’t remember the dates, so anything was possible.’
Fiction by Carlos Fonseca, translated by Megan McDowell.
A Story of the Sea
Diego Zúñiga
‘That was the big news: Tani’s grandson was debuting.’
Fiction by Diego Zúñiga, translated by Megan McDowell.
