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Essays & Memoir|Granta 78
Essays & Memoir|Granta 78
I Gave the Names
Adrian Leftwich
‘We are all capable of self-deceit, especially when seeking to tell the truth.’
Fiction|Granta 78
Fiction|Granta 78
What the Sky Sees
Jon McGregor
‘This place that I have grown up in is a landscape of straight lines, a field of vision dominated by the parallel and the perpendicular.’
Essays & Memoir|Granta 78
Essays & Memoir|Granta 78
Dervishes
Rory Stewart
‘For a Dervish, religion is all about some direct mystical experience of God’.
Fiction|Granta 78
Fiction|Granta 78
Marek Marek
Olga Tokarczuk
‘It hurt for no particular reason, just as the sun rises each morning and the stars come out each night. ’
Fiction|Granta 78
Fiction|Granta 78
The Way You Do It
Rachel Cusk
‘He merely desired to unpick her from the snag of what seemed vaguely to him to be her femininity.’
Essays & Memoir|Granta 78
|Granta 78
Zaghrouda
Jonathan Tel
‘They are proud of being old men, relishing the power the role brings with it’.
Fiction|Granta 78
Fiction|Granta 78
The Little Plate of Childhood
Todd McEwen
‘I truly hate food, I said to Isidor. I just can’t take it any more. F*** food!’
Fiction|Granta 78
Fiction|Granta 78
Give it up for Billy
Edmund White
‘Were there moral cataracts that one could remove?’
Fiction|Granta 78
Fiction|Granta 78
Several Anecdotes About My Wife
Gary Shteyngart
‘Fully clothed, we looked like your average young Brooklyn couple, second-rate hipsters in retro garb’.
Essays & Memoir|Granta 78
Essays & Memoir|Granta 78
The Chelsea Affect
Arthur Miller
‘Despite parboiling myself in the shower a few times I began to like the hotel.’
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In Winter the Sky
Jon McGregor
‘In winter there’s no danger of falling into the sky / Our bodies anchored to the ground by the weight of the light.’