Fiction|The Online Edition
Interior: Monkeyboy
Patrick Flanery
Jeff Goldblum is a very mysterious man... Find out why here.
Essays & Memoir|Granta 137
The Sufferings of this Present Time Are Not Worthy to Be Compared With the Glory Which Shall Be Revealed in Us
Matilda Gustavsson
A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not...
Fiction|The Online Edition
Last Day on Earth
Eric Puchner
Jeff Goldblum is a very mysterious man... Find out why here.
The Day After Trump Won
Leslie Jamison
‘I feel afraid, and I do not know what to make of yesterday’s belief. I can see that belief like an object shimmering underwater, a kind of relic.’
Diary of a Gulag Prison Guard
Ivan Chistyakov
‘Freedom, even with hunger and cold, is still precious and irreplaceable.’
Granta 136: Legacies of Love
The latest from Granta Magazine
Our summer issue brings you the best new fiction from around the world.
Featuring Haruki Murakami, Ben Lerner, Amor Towles, David Means, Julia Armfield, Te-Ping Chen, Magogodi Moaphela, Sara Majka, Thomas Pierce, Adam O’Fallon Price, Jem Calder
Plus poetry from Nuar Alsadir, and a photoessay on transhumanism by Matthieu Gafsou with an introduction by Daisy Hildyard.
The White Bloc
James Pogue
‘This election made clear that white people in this country have begun to vote how Southern whites always have: as a bloc.’
To Live and Die in South Korea
Françoise Huguier & A.M. Homes
‘Blow the candle out, taste the darkness and come back changed.’
The Tenant
Victor Lodato
‘The boy was gone, and for a moment she panicked – a feeling that confused her.’
The Ferryman
Azam Ahmed
‘I do not do this work for the government, or the Taliban, or even the men who I collect from the battlefield and return to their loved ones. All these years I have done this for God.’
Upriver
Kathleen Jamie
‘I liked the way she travelled: with her iPod in one pocket, her traditional Yup’ik woman’s knife, or ulu, in the other.’
To Recall, To Praise
Spencer Reece
2014 Christmas time. Madrid. No snow. Every five years or so snow falls over the...
The Second Night is Ending
Mikail Eldin
When the First Chechen War began in 1994 Mikail Eldin was a young arts journalist...
Best Book of 1981: Lanark
Lorna Gibb
Lorna Gibb on why Alasdair Gray's Lanark is the best book of 1981.
Leagues Away
Benjamin Markovits
The first real job I ever had was playing basketball for a minor league team...
War and Peace on the Big Sandy River
Dean H. King
Far from the canyons of lower Manhattan or the rugged peaks of Afghanistan, 9/11 led...
Fort-de-France
David Macey
‘In an hour or so, the bats will fly during a brief twilight. And then the tree frogs will begin to chirp in the dark ’
