Books & Literature

Caoilinn Hughes is the author The Wild Laughter, which won the Royal Society of Literature’s Encore Award and was longlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize, and Orchid

Jack Parlett is the author of three books: The Poetics of Cruising: Queer Visual Culture from Whitman to Grindr (a monograph with University of Minnesota Press), Same Blue,

In this episode of the Granta Podcast, we speak to the novelist Brandon Taylor, author of Real Life (2020) and The Late Americans (2023), about naturalism, the future

Six hours, on the ferry from Aberdeen to Orkney. The sea was like mud: brown mud when the sun flashes on it and turns it silver-grey, rucked up

He was close enough to smell the hairs on the back of the man’s neck. They almost tickled him, and he tried to rear his head, but found

When you have taught enough fiction writing classes, you begin to take a dim view of craft. I mean craft as maxims, adages, top-down pedagogy. A manual may

Rocket ship’s broken again on Course Two. I have it all in pieces on the turf, and I’m painting it again, with the NASA site up on my

It was so hot that the air in the room seemed to have solidified overnight. Vera must have forgotten to set the fan running before she went to

An Elegist You said the arc of things was always towards their ends; all bows bend towards goodbye. Light the violet clung to vanished come December, ships dissolved