Dedicated to Scandinavian writing, this issue of Granta showcases a literature that continues to pack in more force, pound for pound, than almost anywhere else in Europe.Karl Ove Knausgård turns his critical eye to the work of Tarjei Vesaas; diaries on motherhood, depression and creativity from Eeva Kilpi; and the first publication in English from Lars Norén's monumental En dramatikers dagbok. Featuring new fiction from Nobel laureate Jon Fosse, Solvej Balle, Hell...

When Sigmund Freud died, Auden wrote 'he is no more a person now but a whole climate of opinion.' Something similar could be said for therapy today. We live in a therapeutic age. It is generally accepted that the world of subconsciousness plays into all of our thoughts and actions, and that, in the hands of experts, it can be directed along more fruitful pathways. But as a science and a practice, therapy has always been fraught with dilemmas and crises. It has been bound up with power and ...

India is familiar ground for Granta, having devoted two classic issues to the country, though much has changed since the last dispatch, published on the cusp of the Modi era.173 will feature exceptional contemporary fiction and poetry in translation, as well as articles dedicated to the Indian space program; the bloody twilight of the Naxalites in Jharkhand; archaeology wars, Bollywood, jingoism, and national myth-making; the murder of Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh ...

From Nobel Prize-winning writers to debut novelists, Britain's most prestigious literary magazine brings you the best in new writing, photography and art from around the world. No nation boasts more manufacturing capacity than the People's Republic of China, yet few countries' literary products are less known in the English-speaking world. Witnesses to the country's revolutionary modernisation, China's writers have experienced historical whiplashes and sprints forward on an extreme scale. ...

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game. Any schoolchild can smell the rat in the adage. Everybody knows a game is not worth watching unless the players are trying to win - unless someone is willing to risk the high tackle, smash the serve, steal the base, or throw the knock-out punch.The winter issue of Granta explores how ideas about winning and competition suffuse modern society. We return to the magazine's tradition of sports writing. Arti...

'The most highly praised literary magazine. Remarkably, praise is deserved'New York TimesThe summer issue of Granta includes non-fiction from William T. Vollmann, reporting from the birthplace of Joseph Roth in Brody, Ukraine, and James Pogue on the marijuana-growing communities of Mt. Shasta Vista.

From freemining in the Forest of Dean to the policies underpinning the green transition, the history of energy in Israel to the repressed desires behind boredom, the spring issue of Granta examines a practice as old as human history: Extraction.With reportage from James Pogue and Anjan Sundaram, and pieces from Thea Riofrancos, Laleh Khalili, Nuar Alsadir among others, the non-fiction in this issue moves across time and place to uncover the confrontations that break out in...

The spring issue of Granta - Dead Friends - brings vital figures from the past momentarily back into focus. Features include Fernanda Eberstadt on Andy Warhol, Aatish Taseer on V.S. Naipul, Tao Lin on Giancarlo DiTrapano, Michel Houellebecq on Beno�t Duteurtre, William Atkins on a new method to dispose of mortal remains, an interview with Renata Adler about her friendship with Hannah Arendt, as well as new fiction from Marlen Haushofer, Yasmina Reza and Gary Indiana (among others)...

Baby-boomers, gen-X, millennials, zoomers: the dividing lines among generations in literary culture have become stark to the point of parody. Granta 166 tests the limits of each generation's given definition in popular culture against the reality of its most sharply observed fiction.Stories by Andrew O'Hagan, Brandon Taylor, Nico Walker and Lillian Fishman fill an issue that captures the change in values, aesthetic emphasis and technological experience among different age ...

Featuring non-fiction by Mary Gaitskill, James Pogue, Susan Pedersen, Christian Lorentzen and Snigdha Poonam.Fiction by Fleur Jaeggy (translated by Gini Alhadeff), J.M. Coetzee, Sophie Collins, Kevin Brazil, Victor Heringer (translated by James Young) and Alexandra Tanner.Poetry by Najwan Darwish, Zoe Hitzig, Tamara Nassar and Bernadette Van-Huy.Photography by Rosalind Fox Solomon (introduced by Lynne Tillman), Jesse Glazzard (introduced by Anthony Vahni Capildeo) a...

From Lower Saxony to Leipzig, the carwash to the planetarium, the special Deutschland issue of Granta comprises the most promising developments of contemporary German literature. In Leif Randt’s “Allegro Pastel,” the smooth consciousness of a Merkel-era young professional’s flight into a lifestyle is examined with a clinical scalpel. The issue includes stories by Yoko Tawada, Judith Hermann, Shida Bayzar, and Clemens Meyer.The issue features bursts of fiction and reflectio...

Andr�e Blouin-once called the most dangerous woman in Africa-played a leading role in the struggles for decolonization that shook the continent in the 1950s and '60s, advising the postcolonial leaders of Algeria, both Congos, Ivory Coast, Mali, Guinea, and Ghana.In this autobiography, Blouin retraces her remarkable journey as an African revolutionary. Born in French Equatorial Africa and abandoned at the age of three, she endured years of neglect and abuse in a colonial orphanage, ...