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Fiction|Granta 115
Fiction|Granta 115
The Dreadful Mucamas
Lydia Davis
‘We do not believe they are sincerely trying to please us.’
Essays & Memoir|Granta 115
Essays & Memoir|Granta 115
All I Know About Gertrude Stein
Jeanette Winterson
‘The more I love you, the more I feel alone.’
Essays & Memoir|Granta 115
Poetry|Granta 115
Essays & Memoir|Granta 115
Essays & Memoir|Granta 115
No Grls Alod. Insept Mom.*
A.S. Byatt
‘I already had a horror of being defined as a wife.’
Fiction|Granta 115
Fiction|Granta 115
The Children
Julie Otsuka
‘They learned that some people are born luckier than others and that things in this world do not always go as you plan.’
Essays & Memoir|Granta 115
Essays & Memoir|Granta 115
A Train in Winter
Caroline Moorehead
‘It was clear that not all would, or could, or would choose to, survive.’
Essays & Memoir|Granta 115
Essays & Memoir|Granta 115
A Kept Woman
Laura Bell
‘I find myself walking the high trail between fear and love.’
Fiction|Granta 115
Fiction|Granta 115
The Ojibwe Week
Louise Erdrich
‘Have you seen a beautiful naked antelope lady running through the streets?’
Fiction|Granta 115
Fiction|Granta 115
Fiction|Granta 115
The Sex Lives of African Girls
Taiye Selasi
‘She has the most genuine intentions of any woman out there.’
Essays & Memoir|Granta 115
Essays & Memoir|Granta 115
Other Women
Francine Prose
‘Feminism is as basic to my sense of self as the fact that I have brown eyes.’
Poetry|Granta 115
Fiction|Granta 115
Fiction|Granta 115
Hot-Air Balloons
Edwidge Danticat
‘We should all know that life and death are beyond our control.’
Art & Photography|Granta 115
Art & Photography|Granta 115
Un-Possible Retour
Téa Obreht & Clarisse d'Arcimoles
‘It confirms my belief that the universal exists in particularity.’
Essays & Memoir|Granta 115
Essays & Memoir|Granta 115
Gentlemen
Eudora Welty
‘There is no telling where I may apply, if you turn me down.’
Fiction|Granta 115
Essays & Memoir|Granta 115
Essays & Memoir|Granta 115
We’re Not in This Together
Janice Galloway
‘Abstain was the only advice we were getting.’
Poetry|Granta 115
Poetry|Granta 115
Black Against the Sky, the Giant Mothers
Selima Hill
‘Black against the sky the giant mothers / are whispering together in the moonlight’
Essays & Memoir|Granta 115
Essays & Memoir|Granta 115
Mona’s Story
Urvashi Butalia
‘I’m a woman, I’ve always wanted to be one, it’s that simple.’
The Online Edition
In Conversation|The Online Edition
Jeanette Winterson | Podcast
Jeanette Winterson & Saskia Vogel
Jeanette Winterson reads from her new memoir, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal, and her story ‘All I Know About Gertrude Stein’ from Granta 115: The F Word.
Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition
Doctor, Doctor
Sophie Lewis
‘Five months after I moved to Rio de Janeiro, on a Monday at around ten at night while doing the washing up, I managed to cut my hand deeply and bloodily on a chipped plate.’
Poetry|The Online Edition
Saturday Night
Lavinia Greenlaw
‘Do they dance for those creatures / whose unmade selves / come unbuttoning out of the dark?’
Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition
Letter from Greece
Meaghan Delahunt
‘The only thing between Greece and total collapse is the Greek family.’
Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition
Stacks
Ted Hodgkinson
‘There are few things worse than being rebuked by the very books you have promised yourself you will read.’
Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition
Ali the Muscle
Johnny West
‘All individuality is collapsed by the dog-eat-dog language of ‘us and them’ into a choice between one of two separate, irreconcilable identities.’
Art & Photography|The Online Edition
Still Lifes from a Vanishing City
Elizabeth Rush
‘An insight into how we might live in a city that was built by an unsustainable system, and how those ‘less-than-fortunate’ people have made their lives out of what others have left behind.’
Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition
My Caine Prize Year
Olufemi Terry
‘I came away from these sessions convinced that I was no authority on my work, nor did I have any desire to be.’
In Conversation|The Online Edition
Edwidge Danticat | Interview
Edwidge Danticat & Ellah Allfrey
‘I am a writer who is shaped by everything that I have experienced and loved, including Haiti.’
Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition
The End of the Discussion
Patrick Ryan
‘I just never thought I’d see the day when Amtrak would start poisoning people.’
Fiction|The Online Edition
Notes for a Young Gentleman
Toby Litt
‘A gentleman should greet with genuine warmth only the following persons – his sister’s daughters, his maternal aunts and his mortal enemies.’
In Conversation|The Online Edition
Emily Berry | Interview
Emily Berry & Rachael Allen
‘I’m not even very comfortable being defined as a female poet. You never hear about ‘male poets’.’
Poetry|The Online Edition
The Old Fuel
Emily Berry
‘And I'm / cranking out oodles of love the way an old spaghetti machine / cranks out spaghetti.’
In Conversation|The Online Edition
Four Women, One Revolution
Various Contributors
A video profiling four women who participated in the Egyptian Revolution: a student, a cancer researcher, an art curator and a journalist advocate.
Poetry|The Online Edition
I’m more the drunken slut kind of feminist, or A Treatise on Political Philosophy at the Apex of American Empire
Megan Levad
‘Out of the Zeitgeist / and onto the party barge.’
Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition
Generations
Rebecca Swift
‘Yet Grandma did talk to me that afternoon, and it was as if a wild flower had grown out of the rubble, survived for a day and then disappeared.’
In Conversation|The Online Edition
Taiye Selasi | Interview
Yuka Igarashi & Taiye Selasi
‘I was rather surprised to discover that I’d painted such a devastating portrait.’
Poetry|The Online Edition
Accidental
Sadaf Halai
‘Of the 36 views of Fuji, this one is the strangest: / the great wave off Kanagawa, frozen and tempestuous, / both sound and silence.’
Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition
Marriage Lessons from My Turkish Grandmother
Sevil Delin
‘The stories my grandmother, my anneanne, told me when I was a child are anything but children’s stories. They are folktales that have a common theme – the triumph of wily wives over evil husbands (jealous, repressive skinflints) through crafty subterfuge.’
Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition
A Revolution of Equals
Lana Asfour
‘Women have rights and we’re not going to lose them now.’
Poetry|The Online Edition
Fortunate It Is If Her Skirts Do Not Catch Fire
Amy Gerstler
‘I must remember god is not my private / secretary.’
Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition
Reading Women
Rachel Genn, Hannah Gersen & Tess Lynch
‘I realized that she was rebelling against a society that asked her to be noble when she was actually pissed off.’
Fiction|The Online Edition
Suddenly
Victoria Redel
‘A month after turning forty-five, every last egg in her body is a Rockette doing the can-can.’
Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition
I Like Being a Woman (And I Hate Hysterical Women)
Leila Guerriero
‘One day my father called me over to explain to me about the little seed, patting my head as if he were offering me his condolences.’
In Conversation|The Online Edition
Zlatka
Em Cooper
Em Cooper responds to Maja Hrgović’s ‘Zlatka’ in Granta 115: The F Word.
Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition
According to Your Will
Naomi Alderman
‘Thank you, God,’ said the boys, ‘for not making me a woman.’ ‘Thank you, God,’ said the girls, ‘for making me according to Your will.’
Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition
Bad Women, Good Feminists?
Damian Barr
‘I was told I was not a feminist and never could be, because I was a man.’
In Conversation|The Online Edition
Aftermath
Kris Hofmann
‘What is a feminist, anyway? What does it mean, to call yourself one?’
Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition
To the Lighthouse
Helen Dunmore
‘There are novels which have an almost uncanny power to renew themselves in the reader’s imagination.’
In Conversation|The Online Edition
Night Thoughts
Marie-Margaux Tsakiri-Scanatovits
Marie-Margaux Tsakiri-Scanatovits responds to Helen Simpson’s ‘Night Thoughts’ in Granta 115: The F Word.
Art & Photography|The Online Edition
The F Cover
Michael Salu
‘A DIY identikit magazine cover. Make yourself the woman you want to be.’
In Conversation|The Online Edition
Urvashi Butalia | Interview
Urvashi Butalia & Saskia Vogel
‘Feminist movements everywhere in the world are born of the particular political and economic realities of the places where they exist.’
In Conversation|The Online Edition
Postcards | New Voices
Soumaya Battacharya, Hannah Gersen & Evan James Roskos
Granta catches up with three writers featured in the New Voices series: Soumaya Battacharya, Hannah Gersen and Evan James Roskos.
Poetry|The Online Edition
In the village of the mothers
Vénus Khoury-Ghata
‘The wells are kept for the use of the dead who splash the / walls with their silence.’
Poetry|The Online Edition
Why A Colored Girl Will Slice You If You Talk Wrong About Motown
Patricia Smith
‘Their newborn children grew / like streetlights. We grew like insurance payments. / We grew like resentment.’
In Conversation|The Online Edition
New Voices: Postcards
Billy Kahora, Jessica Soffer & Evie Wyld
Granta catches up with three authors featured in the New Voices series.
Fiction|The Online Edition
Here Comes the Sun | New Voices
Jaime Karnes
‘It’s more love than anyone has ever felt, I’m sure. I have an urge to donate it to children in Africa, or give it to the girl that works the kiosk in the mall. I’ll give it to a lonely continent.’
In Conversation|The Online Edition
Ben Okri | Interview
Ben Okri & Saskia Vogel
‘Whenever we use the word beauty or we feel it, it comes from a sense of something indefinable.’
Poetry|The Online Edition
Yakisoba
Hiromi Itō
‘Who connects with the next woman / With tens and hundreds and thousands of women.’