Books & Literature

I moved to Edinburgh in 2018 and since then have worked in various Scottish cultural institutions as a low-paid customer service worker to support myself, my art and

‘Something happened,’ she says. ‘Something happened?’ ‘Uh huh.’ Tommy admires his girl, bow tie loosened and white button-down stained with signature sauce, red as arterial blood. She’s been

Brea Souders uses a combination of photographs, text and other materials to make work about anonymity and selfhood. She is interested in loneliness, chance, the unknowable. She has

1 For many years I didn’t eat chicken. My aversion was the visceral reaction to a bad encounter. I remember the event as follows. I am sitting in

Rachel Kushner is the author of the novels The Mars Room, The Flamethrowers, Telex from Cuba, a book of essays on art, politics and culture, The Hard Crowd, and a story collection, The

Sidney used to say that life sped through three acts toward the grave. In the first act, things happen to you. In the second, you think about those

Helen Garner was born in Geelong in 1942. She worked as a high school teacher, then as a freelance journalist. Since 1977 she has published novels, stories, screenplays and

On the morning of his admission to Severalls in June 1968 my father remembers sitting in a wheelchair at one end of the main corridor, once the longest

In this episode of the Granta podcast we speak to the novelist and journalist Benjamin Kunkel, author of Indecision (2005) and co-founder of the journal n+1. We discuss