Articles
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Notes on Craft
Sigrid Rausing
‘I think I stayed with the text for as long as I needed to give meaning to my grief, crying not in Johanna’s absence but with her.’
Sigrid Rausing on transcribing, translating and editing Johanna Ekström’s final notebooks.
Essays & Memoir | Issue 164
Introduction
Sigrid Rausing
‘I came to the magazine in 2005 and took over the editorship in 2013.’
Sigrid Rausing introduces her last issue.
Art & Photography
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Issue 162
Long, Too Long America
Aaron Schuman & Sigrid Rausing
‘The conundrum of America: on the one hand, violence and repression; on the other, freedom and social justice.’
Sigrid Rausing introduces photography by Aaron Schuman.
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Ian Jack, Remembered
Sigrid Rausing
‘We will miss him.’
Sigrid Rausing remembers Ian Jack.
Essays & Memoir | Issue 158
Introduction
Sigrid Rausing
‘I don’t think we have quite processed yet what those months of isolation did to us – a time of fear and daily death tolls and also of unprecedented curtailment of our freedom of movement. But there were consolations.’
Editor Sigrid Rausing introduces the issue.
Essays & Memoir | Issue 156
Introduction
Sigrid Rausing
Editor Sigrid Rausing introduces our summer issue.
Essays & Memoir | Issue 150
Introduction
Sigrid Rausing
‘We take our theme from Pwaangulongii Dauod’s remarkable eulogy to the late Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina.’
Editor Sigrid Rausing introduces Granta’s 150th issue.
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Binyavanga Wainaina
Sigrid Rausing
Granta’s editor Sigrid Rausing remembers Binyavanga Wainaina.
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Introduction
Sigrid Rausing
Editor Sigrid Rausing introduces Granta 147: 40th-Birthday Special.
Essays & Memoir | Issue 145
Introduction
Sigrid Rausing
Editor Sigrid Rausing introduces Granta 145: Ghosts.
Essays & Memoir | Issue 144
Introduction
Sigrid Rausing
Editor and publisher Sigrid Rausing introduces Granta 144: genericlovestory.
Essays & Memoir | Issue 143
Introduction
Sigrid Rausing
Sigrid Rausing introduces Granta 143: After the Fact.
Essays & Memoir | Issue 142
Introduction
Sigrid Rausing
Sigrid Rausing introduces Granta 142: Animalia.
Essays & Memoir | Issue 139
Introduction
Sigrid Rausing
Sigrid Rausing introduces Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists 3.
In Conversation | Issue 139
Will Self & Mark Doty | Podcast
Mark Doty & Will Self
Will Self and Mark Doty's discussion with Granta publisher Sigrid Rausing about blood, the surprising relationship between Bram Stoker and Walt Whitman and the nature of addiction.
Essays & Memoir | Issue 165
Introduction
Thomas Meaney
‘This issue of Granta collects writing headed full tilt in the opposite direction from the literary lassitude of the land.’
The editor introduces the issue.
In Conversation | Issue 147
Interview
Jonathan Levi
‘It’s a miracle that Granta survived our mutual adolescence.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 147
Fred Pearce | Notes on Craft
Fred Pearce
‘For a hack like me, book-length meta-journalism is both a luxury and a challenge. I cannot hide my own views over 100,000 words, even if I want to.’
Essays & Memoir
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Issue 164
Reports from the Front: Winter 2023
Peter Englund
‘I repeat: the landscape of war is an acoustic landscape.’
Peter Englund on the war in Ukraine, translated from the Swedish by Sigrid Rausing.
Fiction | The Online Edition
Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists
‘The issue was the first of its kind. Trust me, it said. I know what I am talking about. These young writers are the future of literature. Watch. History will prove me right.’
A history of the list, with reflections from Bill Buford and other editors.
Essays & Memoir | Issue 155
Introduction
Valerie Miles
‘We wanted work of the imagination. Fiction. Consciousness captured on the page.’
Guest editor and co-founder of Granta en Español introduces the issue.
Essays & Memoir | Issue 155
In Memory of Diana Athill
Granta remembers Diana Athill, celebrating her remarkable career as a writer and editor.
Essays & Memoir | Issue 123
Introduction: Best of Young British Novelists 4
John Freeman
‘We live in unreaderly times, but our belief is that these novelists will be exceptions to the general rule of irrelevance faced by writers today.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 123
On Sweden, state power and Susan Sontag
Sigrid Rausing
‘Sweden in a sense was a celebrity state because it had become globally symbolic of the welfare state, of high taxes, of sexual education and liberation.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 98
The Deep End: Introduction
Ian Jack
‘Granta needs good readers as well as good writers.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 98
Best of Young American Novelists 2: Introduction
Ian Jack
Ian Jack introduces Granta 97: Best of Young American Novelists 2.
