Self-Portrait
Martin Amis
My cat, Shadow, was at last getting friendly with his next-door neighbour, Benji.
My cat, Shadow, was at last getting friendly with his next-door neighbour, Benji.
Correspondence from our archive, from Kazuo Ishiguro, Kingsley Amis, Doris Lessing, Martha Gellhorn and more.
The late Binyavanga Wainaina's iconic satire is one of Granta's best-loved essays.
Angela Carter is best known for her adaptations of fairy tales, and ‘Cousins’ is one in her quartet of wolf stories.
Nobel Prize-winning Doris Lessing on her life, lovers and landlords in 1950s London.
Nobel Prize-winning Gabriel García Márquez’s encounters with a clairvoyant in Vienna, Barcelona and Havana.
A satire on fundamentalism in this extract from an unpublished manuscript.
‘Your shoulder blades still jolted to the artillery of the Russians as they scurried eastward.’
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