Britain's most prestigious literary magazine brings you the very best new fiction, memoir, reportage, poetry, photography and art from around the world. Granta consistently publishes innovative and prize-winning writing in each quarterly issue, such as 'Rain' by Colin Barrett and 'The Room-Service Waiter' by Tom Crewe (both winners of the 2024 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction), as well as 'Theories of Care' by Sophie Mackintosh, which won the 2024 Pushcart Prize.
The narrative unfolds across various settings, from Lower Saxony to Leipzig, intertwining everyday locations like a carwash and a planetarium. It explores the lives of its characters as they navigate their experiences and relationships in these diverse environments, highlighting the contrasts and connections between mundane and extraordinary moments. The journey offers a rich tapestry of human emotions and interactions, inviting readers to reflect on the significance of place in shaping identity and experience.
With a focus on energetic and voice-driven fiction, our summer issue will be centered on desire: crushes, companionship, delusion and devastation. Kevin Brazil, Victor Heringer and Alexandra Tanner, among others, query what it means to refract ourselves through others and have our identities designed, upheld or crushed by the people we love. In non-fiction, Snigdha Poonam writes on sectarian tensions in India and the construction of a temple on India's most religiously fraught piece of land. 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.
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 cohorts, all the while questioning the legitimacy of the generational conceit. Non-fiction includes meditations on the short history of the idea of 'a generation', as well as on the relative absence of youth revolts in our time, and the shadowy rule of the old - gerontocracy - in societies across the globe.
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.