Books & Literature

In partnership with Commonwealth Foundation, Granta presents the regional winners of the 2025 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Joshua Lubwama’s story is the winning entry from Africa.   The

In partnership with Commonwealth Foundation, Granta presents the regional winners of the 2025 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Chanel Sutherland’s story is the winning entry from Canada and Europe.   Down

Playing Dead I want him to be quiet.I want him happy and nearby,lying down, facing me. I want us to breathe softly,to slip into unconsciousnessslowly, simultaneously in broad

It was dark by the time I reached Bonn. I was about to meet, thirty years later, Selma, who had been my best friend when I was young.

Joshua Cohen ‘The festival dedicated to his late father was scheduled to open tomorrow evening on the Mediterranean island of Midorca and the evening after that Acker was

Athol loved to tell the story of how we met. In October of 2011, he was a visiting fellow at the Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Studies, and I

When he died last year, Gary Indiana was writing a novel called Remission. The title could refer to the cancer Gary was suffering from as he composed it,

There is a mysterious lack of mystery about friendship. Compared to love, it seems more stable and enduring. We find our friends earlier in life than our lovers,

The summer of 1977, when I was sixteen years old, I started work at Andy Warhol’s Factory. I was a teen stalker, a fantasist who mostly preferred sitting