In my late twenties and early thirties, I went through a period of several years when everything I touched turned to failure. My marriage ended in divorce, my work as a writer foundered, and I was overwhelmed by money problems. I’m not just talking about an occasional shortfall or some periodic be…
The Money Chronicles
Paul Auster
‘I went through a period of several years when everything I touched turned to failure.’
40 years of Granta

The Silkworms
Nothing to see here!

Peace Shall Destroy Many
What made him do what he did? Could it have all been for an ice cream bar, really? Will any of us ever know?

Blue Sky Days
What made him do what he did? Could it have all been for an ice cream bar, really? Will any of us ever know?

Vladimir in Love
What made him do what he did? Could it have all been for an ice cream bar, really? Will any of us ever know?

The Transition
What made him do what he did? Could it have all been for an ice cream bar, really? Will any of us ever know? What made him do what he did? Could it have all been for an ice cream bar, really? Will any of us ever know?
Paul Auster
Paul Auster is the author of Winter Journal, Sunset Park, Invisible, The Book of Illusions and The New York Trilogy, among many other works. 'You Remember the Planes' in Granta 125: After the War, is adapted from Report from the Interior, published in November by Faber & Faber in the UK, Henry Holt in the US and McClelland & Stewart in Canada.
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