In Conversation | The Online Edition

Eva Baltasar & Irene Solà

‘The tide carries my books from my head to a place that is no longer mine.’

The authors discuss friendship, the sea and finishing their novels.

Fiction | The Online Edition

Irene Solà

‘A twenty-five-kilo dog is too small to survive in the countryside.’

An extract from Irene Solà’s forthcoming novel, translated by Mara Faye Lethem.

In Conversation | The Online Edition

Julia Sanches & Mara Faye Lethem

‘There are times when I think I came to literary translation just so I could keep my many homes close to hand.’

Julia Sanches and Mara Faye Lethem on translating Catalan into English.

Essays & Memoir | Issue 155

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.

Fiction | Issue 155

Louis Hamelin

Il fallait compter cinq heures de route pour arriver au club.

Fiction | Issue 155

Louis Hamelin

It took five hours to reach the club.

Essays & Memoir | Issue 140

Jack Shenker

‘My Cairo is an inverted city, one that wears its innards above the skin.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 140

Robert Moor

Robert Moor remembers hitch-hiking across Newfoundland: ‘The way to pronounce Newfoundland, Bill and Sue instructed me, is to remember that it rhymes with understand.’

Fiction | Issue 133

Ben Marcus

‘She could see, or was starting to, that someone out there was seeing him, watching him.’

In Conversation | Issue 133

Maureen Freely

‘How do you hold your own in such a climate?’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 82

Simon Gray

‘The inside of my head feels soft and thoughtless, with a muzzy ache going round its rim.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 82

Anthony Bailey

I come from a generation which still, fifty-odd years on, looks up and once in a while thinks, 'Good, one of ours.'

Essays & Memoir | Issue 82

Jay Rayner

Essays & Memoir | Issue 82

Simon Winchester

‘It is the roar, however, that is most magnificent and daunting’

Fiction | Issue 33

Martin Amis

‘I came rushing upward out of the blackest sleep to find myself surrounded by doctors.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 33

James Fenton

‘It was the Cuba of the future. It was going the way of Iran. It was another Nicaragua, another Cambodia, another Vietnam.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 4

Walter Abish

‘How to explain this resolve to write, this firm unwavering intent to become a writer on the part of someone who may not even really care for books?’