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‘The slutty ingenuity of vegetables when it comes to desire and reproductive methods is a marvel.’
Rebecca May Johnson negotiates allotment culture.
‘Globalisation is incomplete: money can go anywhere, but laws cannot.’
Oliver Bullough on one of Britain’s most contested outposts: the British Virgin Islands.
‘You discover during your very first lessons that the problem of singing better involves overcoming many other problems you had not ever imagined.’
A new story from Lydia Davis.
‘She began to count; it was easier this way, counting, because she would not have to remember how she felt.’
An excerpt from Ukamaka Olisakwe’s Ogadinma.
‘Like any desert, I learn myself by what’s desired of me—
and I am demoned by those desires.’
From Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz.
Don DeLillo is the author of more than fifteen novels, as well as plays, essays and short fiction. His novels include White Noise which won the 1985 National Book Award, Mao II which won the 1992 PEN/Faulkner Award and most recently Zero K. He was awarded the 2010 PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction and the 2015 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
More about the author →‘From a series of linked couples they become one continuous wave, larger all the time.’
‘The stories are representative of one slice of mind. The novels are mind, body, day and night, and what I ate for lunch.’
Don DeLillo and Paul Auster discuss their work in Granta 117: Horror, ‘impoverished characters’ and living in and writing about New York.
‘She lay in a kind of timeless drift, a mindwork spiral, carried on half-formed thoughts. She passed into a false sleep and then was listening again. She opened her eyes.’
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