"Pages of dreamlike prose explore Estonia's terrible Nazi-Soviet past, the trauma of dictatorship, and how memory processes that trauma." — The Financial TimesA Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the YearJust like it was taken for granted that houses could be abandoned and slowly decay, so it was taken for granted that people died in prisons, and that it was possible that no-one would really ever know the cause of death. This is the nature ...

When the celebrated Swedish writer Johanna Ekstr�m found out that she was dying from an eye melanoma she asked her closest friend, Sigrid Rausing, to finish her last book. Rausing transcribed and edited the thirteen handwritten notebooks left by Ekstr�m. The result is a memoir of exceptional depth and intensity, published to critical acclaim in Sweden in 2023.The work showcases Ekstr�m's vivid imagination, writerly precision, and psychological insight, interwoven with Rausing's spa...

The pieces in this issue of Granta touch on themes of escape and loss, from Roger Reeves's essay about how to tell, and understand, stories of slavery now, to Annie Ernaux on what affairs can help us bear.Our winter issue features Raymond Antrobus on performer Johnnie Ray, Marina Benjamin on playing professional blackjack, Chanelle Benz on searching for a homeland, Annie Ernaux (tr. Alison L. Strayer) on w...

From Nobel laureates to debut novelists, international translations to investigative journalism, each issue of Granta turns the attention of the world's best writers on to one aspect of the way we live now.

From Nobel laureates to debut novelists, international translations to investigative journalism, each issue of Granta turns the attention of the world's best writers on to one aspect of the way we live now. This spring issue will feature award-winning writer William Atkins on the proposed nuclear power station Sizewell C, as well as memoir by Alejandro Zambra (tr. Megan McDowell), Lars Horn and Emmanuel Carr�re (tr. John Lambert), and fiction by Adam Foulds and Rebecca Sollom. Wit...

Granta 158: In the Family features Fatima Bhutto on grief and loss; Chris Dennis on his teenage relationship with an older man; Charif Majdalani (trans. Ruth Diver) on the fragmenting situation in Beirut and Will Rees on a journey through the NHS in search of a diagnosis.This winter issue includes fiction by Nathan Harris, Julie Hecht, Sheila Heti, Moses McKenzie, Debbie Urbanski and Kate Zambreno, as well as poetry by Akwaeke Emezi, Claire Schwartz and Dawn Watson.

Granta 163: Best of Young British Novelists 5 celebrates the twenty most significant writers under forty working in the UK in 2023. Previous issues in this series have earmarked rising stars like Kazuo Ishiguro, Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith and Jeanette Winterson. This cohort was selected by judges Tash Aw, Rachel Cusk, Brian Dillon, Helen Oyeyemi and Sigrid Rausing.The fifth generation is Graeme Armstrong, Jennifer Atkins, Sara Baume, Sarah Bernstein, Natasha Brown, Eleano...

From Nobel laureates to debut novelists, international translations to investigative journalism, each issue of Granta turns the attention of the world's best writers on to one aspect of the way we live now.

What are the ethics of writing about a place you visit as an outsider? With Granta's long tradition of travel writing in mind, we ask some of the foremost writers of the genre: is travel writing dead?Tara Bergin, Rana Dasgupta, Geoff Dyer, Eliza Griswold, Mohsin Hamid, Lindsey Hilsum, Colin Thubron, Pico Iyer, Ian Jack, Robert Macfarlane, Wendell Steavenson, Samanth Subramanian and Alexis WrightPlus:William Atkins investigat...

Granta 156: Interiors includes poetry by Kaveh Akbar, Sasha Debevec-McKenney and Gboyega Odubanjo, as well as memoir by Chris Dennis, Debra Gwartney, Ruchir Joshi and Sandra Newman. This summer issue features fiction by Jesse Ball, Claire-Louise Bennett, Eva Freeman, Sara Freeman, Tao Lin

The third volume of Granta's renowned, and prescient, Best of Young American Novelists.Every ten years, Granta devotes an issue to new American fiction by writers under the age of forty, showcasing the young novelists deemed to be the best of their generation - writers of remarkable achievement and promise.In 1997 and 2007 we picked out such luminaries as Edwidge Danticat, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jonathan Safran Foer, Jonathan Franzen, Nicole Krauss, Lo...

In this issue of Granta, produced under lockdown conditions, writers respond to the coronavirus crisis: Leanne Shapton, Viken Berberian, Janine di Giovanni, Michael Hofmann and China Mi�ville.Featuring fiction by Ann Beattie, Emma Cline, Mark Haddon, Joanna Kavenna, David Means, Adam Nicolson and Jason Ockert; and poetry by Ken Babstock, Will Harris, Colin Herd and Sam Sax.Photography by Teju Cole and Diana Matar, as well as by Wiktoria Wojciechowska, introduced by...