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Granta 173: India Autumn 2025 For our autumn edition Granta goes to Modi’s India. Featuring non-fiction from Sujatha Gidla, Raghu Karnad, Karan Mahajan, Srinath Perur and Snigdha Poonam, as well as interviews with Salman Rushdie and Sanjay Subrahmanyam and a symposium on the languages of India.
Granta contributors and friends of the magazine share their year in reading. HARRIET ARMSTRONG A standout book for me this year is Tarjei Vesaas’ The Ice Palace. The cover struck me as a bit cloying at first: it’s the edition with the blonde woman’s face on it, clearly an adult woman, I felt, and neither Siss nor Unn, the eleven-year-old main characters. But once I’d read a page or two ...
In Granta 171: Dead Friends, contributors write about their departed mentors and friends. Featuring Renata Adler on Hannah Arendt, Fernanda Eberstadt on Andy Warhol, Michel Houellebecq on Benoît Duteurtre, Tao Lin on Giancarlo DiTrapano, Aatish Taseer on V.S. Naipaul, as well as autobiography from Yasmina Reza and William Atkins on new developments in our disposal of the dead. Fiction by ...
Granta 169: China Autumn 2024 At a time when China has become a unifying spectre of menace for Western governments, this issue of Granta seeks to bring the country’s literary culture into focus. Featuring fiction by Yu Hua, Zou Jingzhi, Yan Lianke, Jianan Qian, Shuang Xuetao, Mo Yan, Zhang Yueran, Ban Yu, Yang Zhihan and Wang Zhanhei.