‘That thing behind the door was so filthy, so repugnant, that I couldn’t imagine anyone I could call for help.’

Fiction by Marie Darrieussecq, translated by Penny Hueston.

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Mark Making | Orlando Whitfield | Granta ‘The work was pastoral, somehow the artistic equivalent of really liking Wordsworth – just a little too pretty to be serious.’ Orlando Whitfield on taste.

‘The work was pastoral, somehow the artistic equivalent of really liking Wordsworth – just a little too pretty to be serious.’

Orlando Whitfield on taste.

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Psychoanalytic Writings | Louise Bourgeois | Granta Louise Bourgeois’s psychoanalytic writings.

During a decade of analysis, Louise Bourgeois produced little art but wrote prodigiously – over a thousand loose sheets recording dreams and process notes, created as an adjunct to her analysis.

Six of these pages are now free to read on our website.

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Human Moments in World War III | Don DeLillo | Granta Magazine ‘Happiness is not a fact of this experience, at least not to the extent that one is bold enough to speak of it.’ Fiction by Don DeLillo in Granta 11.

‘It is not too early in the war to discern nostalgic references to earlier wars. All wars refer back.’

‘Human Moments in World War III’ by Don DeLillo.

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Both of Jeyamohan’s stories were translated from the Tamil by Priyamvada Ramkumar, whose essay on Tamil and communicating silence in translation also appeared in Granta 173: India.

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‘When we know someone’s eyes are fixed on us, we cannot function freely, no, we cannot function at all. We want to shoot an arrow into the eye that watches.’

Fiction by Perumal Murugan, translated by S Mukundan.

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‘Elections are good, but what’s going on now is a war, don’t you think?’

Fiction by Jeyamohan, translated from the Tamil by Priyamvada Ramkumar.

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Kazhumaadan | Jeyamohan | Granta ‘Two men set about undressing him. They led the naked boy by the hand, sat him down on the clay platform, spread their palms across his shoulders, and pressed him down.’

The Living Tamil Literature Festival took place last week. In the spirit of the festival, we are rounding up Granta stories translated from the Tamil, starting with a story by Jeyamohan, translated by Priyamvada Ramkumar.

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The Complex | Karan Mahajan | Granta ‘Unlike the other Chopra men in the complex, Mohit knew how to concentrate his rage.’ An extract from The Complex by Karan Mahajan.

‘What you wanted, really, was someone on a human scale to be angry at – not the abstractions of quotas or caste maneuvers.’ 

Fiction by Karan Mahajan.

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Running Behind | Stephanie Wambugu | Granta ‘One receives several rude awakenings, is shaken by the shoulders many times, punished many times, before even considering different choices.’

‘I missed a good portion of the outing and hoped the insult would come across.’

Stephanie Wambugu on chronic lateness.

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Things on Places | Jeremy Atherton Lin | Granta ‘The festoonery interrupts the usual, how things are meant to be.’ Jeremy Atherton Lin on resenting Christmas.

‘The festoonery interrupts the usual, how things are meant to be.’

Jeremy Atherton Lin on resenting Christmas.

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Free Botox | Amber Husain | Granta ‘I sensed, if you can believe it, that I was being fobbed off.’ Amber Husain on refusing free Botox.

For a new online series, Resistance, we invited writers to tell us about times they have pushed back against change or advice.

First up, Amber Husain on refusing Botox.

‘I sensed, if you can believe it, that, I was being fobbed off.’

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Her Enemy’s Phrase | Missouri Williams | Granta ‘It was becoming impossible to live in the shadow of that phrase, she told me. For months she had written nothing of her own. For months she had thought of nothing else.’

‘All these failed writers – they get stuck in the thinking stage. I skip it altogether. I just write and write without thinking at all.’

Fiction by Missouri Williams.

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Dropped from the Sky | Juliet Mitchell | Granta ‘Women were classified as wives of their husbands or daughters of their fathers. I wanted to locate women politically.’ Granta interviews Juliet Mitchell on coming to psychoanalysis via feminism.

‘Hysterical women were pathologised, while hysterical men were often seen in the psychoanalytic tradition as egocentric.’

Juliet Mitchell on hysteria, gendered conditions and the status of women.

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Mother | Elfriede Jelinek | Granta ‘No one is among them who loves you as much as mama.’ Memoir by Eflriede Jelinek.

‘He does not look at all like mama, how could he be as unconditional with you, love you as unconditionally as your mama’

Elfriede Jelinek on love.

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Five Poems | Victor Heringer | Granta Five poems by Victor Heringer, translated from the Portuguese by James Young and Justin Greene.

‘Avenida Rio Branco, before it was properly constructed, was all cardboard’

Newly translated poems by Victor Heringer.

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Inhabiting Light | Rinko Kawauchi | Granta Photography by Rinko Kawauchi.

‘The subject is her long-time accomplice: light.’

Photography by Rinko Kawauchi.

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The Complex | Karan Mahajan | Granta ‘Unlike the other Chopra men in the complex, Mohit knew how to concentrate his rage.’ An extract from The Complex by Karan Mahajan.

‘After much debate in this vein, the students concurred on the idea of the hunger strike – it would be very Gandhian.’ 

Fiction by Karan Mahajan.

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Dropped from the Sky | Juliet Mitchell | Granta ‘Women were classified as wives of their husbands or daughters of their fathers. I wanted to locate women politically.’ Granta interviews Juliet Mitchell on coming to psychoanalysis via feminism.

‘The only person who actually knows what’s wrong with the patient is the patient.’

Juliet Mitchell in conversation with Lidija Haas.

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Today We Just Say Germany | Alexander Kluge | Granta ‘Today we just say Germany. It saves intellectual and emotional effort. Like Heiner Müller says, it is better to speak of people than of the people.’

Granta was saddened to hear of Alexander Kluge’s death. In honour of his life and work, we have lifted the paywall on his essay for Granta, ’Today We Just Say Germany’.

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Her Enemy’s Phrase | Missouri Williams | Granta ‘It was becoming impossible to live in the shadow of that phrase, she told me. For months she had written nothing of her own. For months she had thought of nothing else.’

‘The secret of my success is very simple. It’s that I don’t think about things too hard. I may even be quite stupid.’  

Fiction by Missouri Williams.

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Year of the Rat ‘For a year, I was constantly frightened. It felt like there was an exclamation mark stamped onto my brain.’Harry Shukman on his year undercover in British far right organisations.

Congratulations to Harry Shukman, winner of the 2025 Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award.

An extract of his winning book, Year of the Rat, is available here:

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Mother | Elfriede Jelinek | Granta ‘No one is among them who loves you as much as mama.’ Memoir by Eflriede Jelinek.

‘And you still will have to think of mama!’ 

Elfriede Jelinek on the shadows cast by a mother’s love.

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Would highly recommend reading!

Transference in the Afternoon | Jesse Barron | Granta Jesse Barron on the destructive potential of transference.

‘Transference in the Afternoon’, on the dissolution of a therapeutic relationship and its legal fallout, is free to read for one more day.

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Transference in the Afternoon | Jesse Barron | Granta Jesse Barron on the destructive potential of transference.

‘According to the documents, they began the meetings by talking and concluded by having sex.’

Jesse Barron’s ‘Transference in the Afternoon’ is free to read for two more days.

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Transference in the Afternoon | Jesse Barron | Granta Jesse Barron on the destructive potential of transference.

‘According to the documents, they began the meetings by talking and concluded by having sex.’

Jesse Barron’s ‘Transference in the Afternoon’ is free to read for two more days.

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The Complex | Karan Mahajan | Granta ‘Unlike the other Chopra men in the complex, Mohit knew how to concentrate his rage.’ An extract from The Complex by Karan Mahajan.

‘The police saw no reason to indulge these simpering, entitled college kids; and they hit back with force at the swarming protesters.’

An extract from The Complex by Karan Mahajan.

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Transference in the Afternoon Jesse Barron on the destructive potential of transference.

Some good news!

Jesse Barron's "Transference in the Afternoon" is now free to read at @grantamag.bsky.social.

Is sex with a therapist an affair or abuse? A trove of emails may hold the answer.

Gripping reading, best nonfiction I've read in a long time. 🎁

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Transference in the Afternoon | Jesse Barron | Granta Jesse Barron on the destructive potential of transference.

‘There is disagreement about who kissed whom; Pollack says Kling, Kling says Pollack. But there is no disagreement about the kiss.’

Jesse Barron on the lawsuit between a one-time Wall Street hedge fund manager and his former therapist.

Free to read until Monday.

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