From the editor’s desk
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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Seeing Things
Emily LaBarge
‘The City of the city is jagged and spiky, tangled, twisted – burned down, paved over, rebuilt, unruly with wealth and poverty side by side, as they have always been.’
Cosmos
Tishani Doshi
‘Remember when we were / young and the end was a black hole at the edge of forever, / a million light years away.’
What History Tells us about Epidemics
Sandra Hempel
‘From when we first began living together in settlements, bacteria and viruses were with us, replicating, mutating and jumping species with extraordinary agility.’
The Pandemic, Our Common Story
Anna Badkhen
Anna Badkhen was researching Eden – the origins of humanity in the Afar Triangle of East Africa – when coronavirus broke out across the world.
Kettle Holes
Melissa Febos
‘They knelt at my feet. They crawled naked across gleaming wooden floors.’
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