Granta 128: American Wild

Summer 2014

American Wild: it can kill you, or exhilarate you. It’s always there, a character in its own right in the great unfolding narrative of American writing.

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Introduction: American Wild

Sigrid Rausing

Thing with Feathers that Perches in the Soul

Anthony Doerr

Exotics

Callan Wink

River So Close

Melinda Moustakis

The Fighters

David Treuer

A Confession

Jess Row

Casta

Nicola Lo Calzo

A Meeting of Minds with Henry David Thoreau

Andrew Motion

Chasing Wolves in the American West

Adam Nicolson

Mitakuye Oyasin

Aaron Huey

Beyond Sunset

Mary Ruefle

Grandma and Me

Thomas McGuane

Krapp Hour

Anne Carson

The Mast Year

Diane Cook

Mirage

Claire Vaye Watkins

Holiday

Mona Simpson

Self-Portrait

Martin Amis

Online Edition

First Sentence: Louise Erdrich

Louise Erdrich

Sam Lipsyte and Diane Cook in Conversation

Diane Cook & Sam Lipsyte

The Family Friend

Julia Franck

Two Poems

Hoa Nguyen

Mona Simpson | First Sentence

Mona Simpson

Blood Is Usually Red

Katherine Faw Morris

Women’s Shadow in the American Western

Thirza Wakefield

Melinda Moustakis | First Sentence

Melinda Moustakis

Jill

Darcey Steinke

Alan Warner | Five Things Right Now

Alan Warner

Satanás

Olivia Clare

Never did amount to anything

Dorothea Lasky

Girl on Girl

Diane Cook

Quarter Past Midnight

Marie-Helene Bertino

Be Careful with that Fan

Andre Perry

The Ambivalent

Paulo Scott

Three Football Books

Various Contributors

Kseniya Melnik | Five Things Right Now

Kseniya Melnik

Two Poems

Tomaž Šalamun

Once Was Dark

Josh Weil

Einstein on the Beach

Hugh Seidman

Let’s Tell This Story Properly

Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

Akhil Sharma | Five Things Right Now

Akhil Sharma

Granta 128: American Wild