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Poetry|Granta 107
Poetry|Granta 107
Trick
Sam Willetts
‘The unexceptional mystery takes place: / around eleven, love turns to matter’
Essays & Memoir|Granta 107
Essays & Memoir|Granta 107
Lost Cat
Mary Gaitskill
‘I wish I had thought back: “Don’t worry. Stay where you are. I will find you.” Instead I thought “I’m scared too. I don’t know where you are.”’
Fiction|Granta 107
Fiction|Granta 107
The Encirclement
Tamas Dobozy
‘Teleki would gasp and sputter and grow red in the face and the audience would love it.’ Tamas Dobozy in Granta 107
Essays & Memoir|Granta 107
Essays & Memoir|Granta 107
Capital Gains
Rana Dasgupta
‘The society that has emerged in post-liberalization India is one consumed both by euphoria and dread.’
Fiction|Granta 107
Fiction|Granta 107
From the Journals of Mahmoud Darwish 1941–2008
Mahmoud Darwish
‘I’m alive even though I feel no pain.’
Fiction|Granta 107
Fiction|Granta 107
Fiction|Granta 107
The Rule of Tagame
Kenzaburō Ōe
‘Kogito was lying on the narrow army cot in his study, his ears enveloped in giant headphones, listening intently.’
|Granta 107
Call Me By My Proper Name
Rupert Thomson
‘My mother’s brother was christened Cedric, but people always called him Joe.’
Essays & Memoir|Granta 107
Essays & Memoir|Granta 107
Airships
Javier Marías
‘We live in an age that tends to depersonalize even people and is, in principle, averse to anthropomorphism.’
Essays & Memoir|Granta 107
Essays & Memoir|Granta 107
The Mind-Child
Remembering J.G. Ballard
Will Self
‘Jim had been in hospital over Christmas’
Essays & Memoir|Granta 107
Essays & Memoir|Granta 107
A Sign of Weakness
Terrence Holt
‘Fast asleep, even comatose, a living body moves.’
Essays & Memoir|Granta 107
Essays & Memoir|Granta 107
Body Snatchers
William T. Vollmann
‘The All-American Canal was now dark black with phosphorescent streaks where the border’s eyes stained it with yellow tears.’
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After Lockerbie
George Rosie
‘I’ve seen many images from the Lockerbie calamity since but none has stayed with me like the picture of Shannon’s pretty, smiling face.’
In Conversation|The Online Edition
The Sweetmaker of Kabul
Oliver Englehart
‘The Mandayee bazaar in Kabul’s old city is no tourist souk. Stop to gawp at some oddity of life here and you might be trampled under the mucky wheels of an overladen handcart.’
Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition
Only Connect
Anita Sethi
‘His mouth cracks open and then the screen freezes, with an elongated black hole where his mouth should be. The frozen moment.’
Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition
An Education
Lynn Barber
‘The whole meeting seemed completely unreal but then everything at that time seemed unreal, so I said ‘Yes, by all means make the film,’ and went back to the hospital and forgot about her.’
In Conversation|The Online Edition
Interview: Louis de Bernières
Anita Sethi
‘At four o’clock in the morning, when Louis de Bernières has lines of poetry repeating in his head which won’t stop gnawing away, he writes them down.‘
Art & Photography|The Online Edition
One Ridge Over
Josh Weil
‘Some mornings I see him coming up through the mist. The grey shape of a long-haired man carrying a long-barreled gun amid the bare grey branches of the old apple trees.’
In Conversation|The Online Edition
After the Affair
Maud Newton & Alexander Chee
‘Reading it, I thought, this must be what it was like to be his lover. To wait and wait for him to eventually say something to you, while he talked about everything else.’
Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition
A question of identity
Dubravka Ugreši?
A person’s homeland is a fact in their life, just as their birth date is...
In Conversation|The Online Edition
Video: Jhumpa Lahiri and Mavis Gallant
Rosalind Porter, Jhumpa Lahiri & Mavis Gallant
‘Gallant is considered one of the greatest short-story writers of all time’.