"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 ...

A searingly powerful memoir about the impact of addiction on a family.In the summer of 2012 a woman named Eva was found dead in the London townhouse she shared with her husband, Hans K. Rausing. The couple had struggled with drug addiction for years, often under the glare of tabloid headlines. Now, writing with singular clarity and restraint, Hans’ sister, the editor and publisher Sigrid Rausing, tries to make sense of what happened.In Mayhem, she a...

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...

American Wild also features new writing by Martin Amis, Anne Carson, Diane Cook, Thomas McGuane, Jess Row, Mona Simpson and Callan Wink, poetry by Andrew Motion and Mary Ruefle and photography by Aaron Huey and Nicola Lo Calzo.

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...

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...

We are what we remember, and even when we invent, we write what we remember. Every line is a fragment of something else; that is the great collective project that we call culture. In this issue of Granta, writers remember, or invent, scenes from their own lives and the lives of others.Ann BeattieFiona BensonAndrew BrownBernard CooperLydia DavisDavid GatesArcelis GirmayLaura KasischkeOlivia LaingColin McAdam

In 1979, Bill Buford, a young American graduate, revived an old Cambridge university magazine and created a new home for good writing of all kinds - reportage, fiction, memoir, poetry - as well as photography. In the years (and decades) that followed, Granta established itself as the one of the most prestigious literary publications in the English-speaking world. In that time Granta has published 26 Nobel Prize for Literature winners, defined new literary genres and paved...

In this issue, Oliver Bullough travels to Ukraine and Crimea in the wake of revolution; Kerry Howley writes about cage fighting and giving birth in Texas; Molly Brodak remembers her father, a compulsive gambler and failed bank robber; and Bella Pollen describes being visited - repeatedly - by an incubus. Here are fifteen takes on the human drive to possess - a person, a home, a territory - and the many ways we become possessed - by ideas, by desires, by spirits.Also featuring ficti...

New fiction from:Haruki MurakamiBen LernerAmor TowlesDavid MeansJulia ArmfieldTe-Ping ChenMagogodi OaMphela MakheneSara MajkaThomas PierceAdam O'Fallon PriceJem CalderPlus poetry from Nuar Alsadir, and a p...

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...

Featuring non-fiction by Lydia Davis, Brian Dillon, Wiam El-Tamami, Peter Englund (tr. Sigrid Rausing), Diana Evans, Tabitha Lasley, Adam Mars-Jones, Maartje Scheltens, Anjan Sundaram, Y-Dang Troeung, Ed Vulliamy and Ada Wordsworth.Fiction by Nicola Barker, Mazen Maarouf (tr. Mazen Maarouf with Laura Susijn), Ad�le Rosenfeld (tr. Jeffrey Zuckerman) and Brywan Washington poetry by Oluwaseun Olayiwola and Martha Sprackland.Photography by Suzie Howell (introduced by A.K. Blake...