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‘If we dress up the Chinese issue of Granta as a Party pamphlet, what are the chances they stock it here?’ I asked. ‘Don’t count on it,’ she said.’
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A New Collection of Writing from China's Mainland | Granta
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Granta: The Magazine of New Writing Granta is the United Kingdom’s best-known quarterly journal of...
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‘It happens when you realize that your legs are no good anymore. They won’t carry you far before they hurt.’
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‘If I told a guy what I did for a living, the same thing always happened. First, he heard “gambler” and decided I worked for a casino dealing cards.’
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‘I have heard the item girls singing each to each. / I do not think they will sing to me.’
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‘One-third of all Americans killed by strangers are killed by police.’
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‘O’Connor intentionally undermined her pop world ascendancy by spurning the trappings of fame, and this attracted derision from those who could not understand the path she chose.’
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‘Corporate publishing is the channel through which literature happens to flow at this moment in history.’ Christian Lorentzen dissects the literary establishment.
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‘Each box was like the distillation of all that we have learned as a species about our bodies and their infirmities, a time capsule of medicine.’
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‘There is a demonstration on the other side of La Paz.’ Ryszard Kapuściński on Bolivia in 1970 for Granta 33: What Went Wrong?.
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‘One of the loveliest possibilities / is that the truth is made of glass’
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Granta Magazine | Read the Best Literary Fiction, Poetry and Journalism
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Granta is a literary magazine founded in 1889. Read the best new fiction, poetry, photography, and essays by famous authors, Nobel winners and new voices.
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A Queer Streak Part Two: Possession
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‘He thinks he remembers Violet coming for supper, as she sometimes did, bringing with her a pudding which she set outside in the snow, to keep it cool.’
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A Queer Streak Part One: Anonymous Letters
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‘She would never know why she had done it. She was sleepless and strung-up and her better judgement had deserted her.’ Fiction by Alice Munro in Granta 17.
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‘Many people in the country seem happy to accept mercenaries in exchange for stability.’ James Pogue on the Wagner Group in the Central African Republic.
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Madeleine Thien on the occupation of Palestine. ‘This numbing of our souls and our reliance on the word intractable: surely this cannot be our answer.’
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‘I am on the hunt for the Russian Empire, or what traces might still exist of its colonial enterprise.’ Bathsheba Demuth travels the Yukon river, following the history of the fur trade and the Nulato massacre.
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‘I’d been dubious about his company at first.’ Sarah Moss on watching Shakespeare with her twelve-year-old son.
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‘Gerontocracy is as old as the world. For millennia, to greater or lesser degrees, it has been the default principle of governance, from ancient Greek city-states to the Soviet republics.’
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‘He remembered now why he’d left in the first place: the people of this poor hot country were smug when they had nothing to be smug about.’
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Ecce Senex: Stephen James Joyce
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‘He was “a Joyce, not a Joycean”, yet considered himself the supreme arbiter of what constituted valuable Joyce scholarship. At the same time, he admitted that he rarely read anything in full.’ James Scudamore on trying to ghostwrite Stephen James Joyce's memoir.
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‘The description becomes a psychic image, a political image of transformational potency.’ Kate Briggs and Lisa Robertson discuss becoming novelists, description as a political tool, and endings.
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Once Again, Germany Defines Who Is a Jew | Part II
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‘Turning to Germany, it seems that Jews are the only ones entitled to historical context, to history, and also to trauma. Palestinian history is denied.’ George Prochnik in conversation with Emily Dische-Becker and Eyal Weizman, after 7 October 2023.
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Abuse, Silence, and the Light That Virginia Woolf Switched On
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April Ayers Lawson on Virginia Woolf's sexual abuse at the hands of George Duckworth, and how Woolf's experiences helped her understand her own.
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‘When you write about people who actually lived, the question of the right distance – not only in terms of time – is constantly on your mind.’
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Snigdha Poonam meets members of the vigilante Cow Protection Army, who believe ‘the time has come to cleanse the country of cow-eaters.’
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‘In Marienbad we were relieved from the feeling that we’d missed a heyday – we did, but it doesn’t matter.’
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Once Again, Germany Defines Who Is a Jew | Part I
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‘We just do not think that it’s for the Germans to say to us what kind of Jews we should be, what kind of project we should be part of.’ George Prochnik in conversation with Emily Dische-Becker and Eyal Weizman, before 7 October 2023.
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‘It was like stepping into the interior of a submarine.’ Edward Platt in Granta 102: The New Nature Writing.
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The Killing of a Berlin Power Broker
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‘Why does the centre of Berlin look like an abandoned shopping mall on the edge of Omaha?’ An essay from Peter Richter, translated by Shaun Whiteside.
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‘After the war, the car industry became the bearer of a new nationalism, and the car the emblem of recovery and a source of collective identification.’
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From Nobel laureates to debut novelists, international translations to investigative journalists, Granta publishes the best new literary writing and art.
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‘The day took forever, but a day is not so long to inventory a life and by the end there it was: Ed’s life, with its shape and no other.’ Memoir by Robert Glück.
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‘Without any forewarning or explanation, people suddenly began visiting.’ Translated from the Japanese by Polly Barton.
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‘You can cross the world but still have ends mentality. I’m a girl walking home alone. I take a detour, and it protects me.’
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‘It doesn’t matter what else your work does: it must generate that frisson.’ Olivia Laing discusses fantasy and the future with M. John Harrison.
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London, chief city of Airstrip One, the third most populous province of Oceania. It’s 1984...
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