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Anna Pyasetskaya
Anna Pyasetskaya is the founder of a Chechen-Russian organization which counsels and represents people still searching for missing family members. ‘The Lost Boys’ (Granta 64) was first published in Karta, a Russian journal dedicated to human-rights issues.
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Interview | Thomas Ruff
Thomas Ruff & Alice Zoo
‘The camera records what’s in front of it, but that reality can be pre-arranged.’
Thomas Ruff speaks to Alice Zoo about light, Bernd and Hilla Becher and the essence of photography.
The Cottage
Isabelle Baafi
‘The scarlet stained my palm – / whether the blood of the berry or of the bird, / I couldn’t tell.’
A poem by Isabelle Baafi.
The Borrowed Hills
Scott Preston
‘The farm was in one of the fourteen green-purple wet deserts, in a dent six miles wide with its shoulders covered in scree and a rainy season that lasts twelve months a year.’
An extract from The Borrowed Hills by Scott Preston.
Fast by the Horns
Moses McKenzie
‘First, a boy was meant to stop following him mama, then him papa, then at around fourteen him become him own man – that’s how Ras Levi say life was suppose to work.’
An extract from Fast by the Horns by Moses McKenzie.
Naomi Alderman | Podcast
Naomi Alderman & Ellah Allfrey
Ellah Allfrey speaks with Naomi Alderman, one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists.
