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Summer 2021
Granta 156: Interiors explores the spaces and systems that contain and control us.
Featuring Chris Dennis on Ghislaine Maxwell, Debra Gwartney on the last days of Barry Lopez and Lynne Tillman on the photographs of Kaitlin Maxwell.
Introducing Eva Freeman, Vanessa Onwuemezi, Sara Freeman and Okwiri Oduor.
Cover image by Kaitlin Maxwell
From this Issue
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A Series of Rooms Occupied by Ghislaine Maxwell
Chris Dennis
‘What is the metaphor of the room? Of the house. Of the neighborhood.’
Chris Dennis on incarceration.
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THE STARS OF THE FAST & FURIOUS FRANCHISE HAVE A CLAUSE IN THEIR CONTRACTS THAT SAYS THEY CAN NEVER LOSE A FIGHT
Sasha Debevec-McKenney
‘Another spring, another sequel.’
A poem by Sasha Debevec-McKenney.
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In the Aftermath
Eva Freeman
‘Green would work but blue, cobalt blue to be precise, would be better.’
Fiction set in Flatbush by Eva Freeman.
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Census
Gboyega Odubanjo
‘should one count names like goats?’
A poem by Gboyega Odubanjo.
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Variations
Tao Lin
‘But in variation #5 they spent ten hours together.’
An extract from Tao Lin’s novel Leave Society.
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Tides
Sara Freeman
‘She has always wanted this: to slip beneath the surface, to dispossess herself.’
An extract from Sara Freeman’s forthcoming novel.
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How Prayer Works
Kaveh Akbar
‘My brother and I hurried through sloppy postures of praise, quiet as the light pooling around us.’
A new poem by Kaveh Akbar.
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Cuba
Vanessa Onwuemezi
‘The hotel is pink all over, as the bitten inside of her mouth, as her dark father’s radiant bottom lip’.
A story by Vanessa Onwuemezi, from her collection Dark Neighbourhood.
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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.
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The Repeat Room
Jesse Ball
‘The place was so squat and pitiless, so endless, repetitive, fluorescent.’
Fiction by Jesse Ball.
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A Last Chance in Whitefish
Adam O’Fallon Price
‘The dialogue, of course, is almost entirely invented, though true to the spirit and tone.’
A story by Adam O’Fallon Price.
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One Muggy Spring, Thanks, Dot and Secretly Try
Diane Williams
Three short stories by Diane Williams.
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Checkout 19
Claire-Louise Bennett
‘Month after month I ruefully drop the most perfect shade of red down the toilet and flush it away.’
An excerpt from Claire-Louise Bennett’s forthcoming novel.
