Roughly and on average, I am the same: the same as you.


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‘I alone know a running stream
that is recovery partly and dim sweat
of a day-fever’
A poem by Rowan Evans.
‘Humour is a thread we hang onto. It punctures through the fog of guilt.’
Momtaza Mehri in conversation with Warsan Shire.
‘Something shifted in me that night. A small voice in my head said, maybe you can make a way for yourself as a poet here, too.’
Mary Jean Chan in conversation with Andrew McMillan.
‘There was to be an exhibition. There were lots of pictures like his, apparently – of waiters, pastry cooks, valets, bellboys.’
An essay by Jason Allen-Paisant from Granta 159: What Do You See?
‘I have started to see that nothing is itself’
A poem by Jason Allen-Paisant from Granta 154: I’ve Been Away for a While.
A.L. Kennedy is the author of novels, short stories and nonfiction. Her most recent book is We Are Attempting to Survive Our Time, published in 2020. She was one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists in 1993 and 2003 and a judge of the same list in 2013.
More about the author →‘I was tempted to let the pages blow overboard and start again...But they have very stern laws about littering at sea.’
A.L. Kennedy on being chosen for, and judging Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists.
‘I have never seen anyone eat figs in the street and feel I am unsurprised.’
Tatiana Salem Levy is introduced by previous double Best of Young British Novelist, A.L. Kennedy.
In the summer of 1917 Robert Grainier took part in an attempt on the life of a Chinese laborer caught, or anyway accused of, stealing from the company stores of the Spokane International Railway in the Idaho Panhandle.
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