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Today we publish Granta 172: Badlands. Read the summer edition online for free for the next five days or subscribe today and receive unlimited access to this issue, as well as our archive. granta.com/products/grant…
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you Stephanie Wambugu whose writing I discovered a few weeks ago. I think she's going to kill us with her writing. Honestly...granta.com/my-first-husba…
‘The United States of America, / It’s a fair bet, is going to die.’ ‘The Desert Song’ by Frederick Seidel. granta.com/the-desert-son…
‘The wedding had been a big ceremony in Newport, Rhode Island, and throughout it I remembered feeling like an imposter, like I’d somehow snuck in.’ Short fiction by Stephanie Wambugu. granta.com/my-first-husba…
Granta contributors, friends and staff share what they are reading this summer. granta.com/summer-reads-2…
‘How could a dead writer’s notions possibly threaten Ukraine, at least in comparison to a Russian drone?’ Vollmann on decolonising Ukraine’s literary giants. granta.com/drones-and-dec…
‘I had a stomachache, but had consented to intercourse, because I did jump at every chance – with him.’ New fiction by Diane Williams. granta.com/four-stories-d…
‘I linger for a moment before my parents’ grave. It’s as if I’m saying, “Here I am.”’ Memoir by Annie Ernaux, translated by Alison L. Strayer. granta.com/the-other-girl/
‘Watching them depart, Heath had – because he couldn’t help it – pictured Don and Nance having sex.’ New fiction by Natasha Stagg. granta.com/nothing-new-he…
‘Chagall can’t visit / his mother’s / grave; says his / talent was hidden / in hers.’ Poetry by Nasim Luczaj. granta.com/four-poems-luc…
You are there between them, invisible. - Annie Ernaux (in the latest Granta) granta.com/the-other-girl/
Carmen Boullosa, The Dead Revolution and the Living Page: granta.com/the-dead-revol…, @
Eileen Myles, Together: granta.com/together-eilee…. ... We became friends because we had an enormous fight... ooff!! So good --essay worth reading just in voice @EileenMyles #amreading #cnf
"Like every mega-babe I’d ever known, she slept with a stuffed animal, in her case a gnarled hippo named Boom Boom." granta.com/happy-ending-n…
Happy Ending | Brittany Newell | Granta. This is superb. granta.com/happy-ending-n…
When will the new Granta arrive at my house and can it please come before I go to the pool today?
Curled up in a makeshift hammock in the humidity yesterday with Granta 172: Badlands. #poetry #photograghy
This is Granta 172: Badlands. Our summer edition traverses inhospitable terrain, from troubled childhoods to drone-infested Ukraine. The issue publishes on Thursday 17 July.
‘Over the course of two weeks this spring, I photographed four corner shops in Kilburn, and two on Caledonian Road.’ Sana Badri on London, corner shops and community. granta.com/corner-shops-a…
