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Fiction|Granta 8
Fiction|Granta 8
Evensong
Todd McEwen
‘Characteristically my wife refused to be drawn into the situation while I became obsessed with it.’
Essays & Memoir|Granta 8
Essays & Memoir|Granta 8
Editorial
Bill Buford
‘A new fiction seems to be emerging from America, and it is a fiction of a peculiar and haunting kind.’
Essays & Memoir|Granta 8
Essays & Memoir|Granta 8
Claudia Cardinale is a Mexican Revolutionary
Duncan Bush
‘What average viewer, you ask? Who knows. Male, Caucasian, as they say.’
Essays & Memoir|Granta 8
Essays & Memoir|Granta 8
The State of The State of Things
Michael Herr
‘It's appropriate to a film that is so much about film to pay tribute to the mythical incubator of the medium.’
Essays & Memoir|Granta 8
Essays & Memoir|Granta 8
Fragments of a Lament for Thelonious Monk
Russell Hoban
‘Always the slant rhyme with Thelonious, that was his Thelonious assault on the grey and civil devils of the ordinary. Walk tall and slanty, Thelonious; you live.’
Essays & Memoir|Granta 8
Essays & Memoir|Granta 8
War Reports from Poland
Marek Nowakowski
‘The familiar scenes floated by. Life renewing itself, the same from year to year.’
Fiction|Granta 8
Fiction|Granta 8
Rayme – A Memoir of the Seventies
Jayne Anne Phillips
‘This story could be about any one of those people, but it is about Rayme and comes to no conclusions.’
Fiction|Granta 8
Fiction|Granta 8
Rock Springs
Richard Ford
‘But as I read on a napkin once, between the idea and the act a whole kingdom lies. And I had a hard time with my acts, which were oftentimes offender's acts.’
Fiction|Granta 8
Fiction|Granta 8
The Compartment
Raymond Carver
‘How would he act when he saw the boy at the station?’
Fiction|Granta 8
Fiction|Granta 8
Why I Love Country Music
Elizabeth Tallent
‘The harmonica player is left standing alone in the light, talking to himself. He cleans the spit from his instrument with a white handkerchief so old it is nearly transparent.’
Fiction|Granta 8
Fiction|Granta 8
Monster Deal
Frederick Barthelme
‘I'm about ready to go see what’s happening when they come in, each of them carrying a flamingo from the front yard.’
Fiction|Granta 8
Fiction|Granta 8
Still Life With Watermelon
Bobbie Ann Mason
‘When she saw a photograph of a cornucopia in a magazine, she imagined a huge watermelon stuck in its mouth.’
Fiction|Granta 8
Fiction|Granta 8
The Barracks Thief
Tobias Wolff
‘What sort of a man would turn his back on his own kind?’
Essays & Memoir|Granta 8
Essays & Memoir|Granta 8
Sugar Daddy
Angela Carter
‘However unconsciously, as if that were an excuse, he’d prepared a potentially lethal bed for this daughter’s lover.’
Angela Carter about her father.
Art & Photography|Granta 8
Art & Photography|Granta 8
Moscow Women
Carola Hansson & Karin Lidén
‘She’s young, then suddenly she’s old, and she’s buried without knowing why she ever lived.’
Essays & Memoir|Granta 8
Essays & Memoir|Granta 8
El Salvador: An Aide-Mémoire
Carolyn Forché
‘It is my feeling that the twentieth-century human condition demands a poetry of witness.’
Essays & Memoir|Granta 8
Essays & Memoir|Granta 8
Letters to the Editor
‘Your issue A Literature for Politics is extraordinary, piece by piece and as a whole.’