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10 Sept

America was a country dreamed up by religious fanatics and realized through violence. Philip Roth gave a name for this ‘blessed rage for purity’: the ‘indigenous American Berserk’. Granta 176: American Berserk publishes today. granta.com/products/gra...

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This Thursday, Granta magazine and the Saxena Center at Brown University host a symposium on contemporary Indian literature, featuring contributors from Granta 173: India. Event details: events.brown.edu/ccsa/event/3...

We congratulate Anne Carson, winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature. Carson is a contributing editor at Granta and a regular writer for the magazine. In celebration, we have lifted the paywall on all her contributions to our pages. granta.com/contributor/...

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granta.comVisitors Rev. 4 | Anne Carson | Granta‘I descend to confront – a visitor! After the jam? I think so. Or the gin.’

‘I descend to confront – a visitor! After the jam? I think so. Or the gin.’ ‘Visitors Rev. 4’ by Anne Carson. granta.com/visitors-rev...

granta.comWhen Rhinestones Star the Night and You Find Yourself Thinking Fondly of Dave Hickey | Anne Carson | Granta‘Pain is normal. After all, / we die!’ Poetry by Anne Carson.

‘Look, the / blessings should surprise you, not / the pain.’ A poem by Anne Carson for Granta 171: Dead Friends. granta.com/rhinestones-...

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granta.comKrapp Hour (Act 2) | Anne Carson | Granta‘this is my theory of her awake all night worrying about little wild animals active in the dark’ The second instalment of Anne Carson’s fictional TV show.

‘this is my theory of her awake all night worrying about little wild animals active in the dark’ The second instalment of Anne Carson’s fictional talk show. granta.com/krapp-hour-a...

granta.comHang It Up | Anne Carson | Granta MagazineA poem by Anne Carson from Granta 110: Sex.

‘the surrealists are here / the ice cream is here / a clash of ethnographies is here’ A poem by Anne Carson. granta.com/hang-it-up/

granta.comArdor (Aghast) | Anne Carson | Granta‘I taught you what you know, I never taught you what I know.’

‘These jokes are your defense.’ A short story by Anne Carson from Granta 145: Ghosts. granta.com/ardor-aghast/

granta.comKrapp Hour | Anne Carson | Granta‘Funny to end up here you may think, in this line of work, did I back into it, well more or less.’

‘Funny to end up here you may think, in this line of work, did I back into it, well more or less.’ A literary talk show by Anne Carson. granta.com/krapp-hour/

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sean minogue

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Finally digging through my TBR pile and this essay from Sheila Heti is so, so good.

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Last summer, on behalf of Granta, Sheila Heti underwent ketamine, DMT, and LSD/MDMA treatments. Her essay about these drug therapies is free to read online until Monday, along with the rest of Granta 174: Therapy.

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Rónán Hession

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Deep cut from the June @grantamag.bsky.social Merve Emre interviews Jon Fosse and Marilynne Robinson about God. Might be of interest @kevinhargaden.bsky.social @rolandbates.bsky.social granta.com/the-god-dime...

granta.comThe God Dimension‘If you write doctrine, then you’re a bad writer. If you have some talent as a writer, you don’t do that. You create a universe.’

granta.comGranta 176: American Berserk | GrantaAmerica was a country dreamed up by religious fanatics and realized through violence. Philip Roth...

A selection of pieces from Granta 176: American Berserk are free to read throughout October. granta.com/products/gra...

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granta.comThe Year of the Rat | Halle Hill | Granta‘Opening lines delivered on the apps frequently began with “lift UP the cap and let me see”. Or “Is that your bitch?”’ A short story by Halle Hill.

‘A recent Facebook IQ test had revealed Lee to be a man at the far right of the bell curve, not just gifted but searingly brilliant.’ A short story by Halle Hill. granta.com/year-of-the-...

granta.comHe Trains My Hands for War | Zora J Murff & Ciarán Finlayson | Granta‘He placed family portraits alongside a newspaper clipping recording the murder of his mother’s boyfriend.’ Ciarán Finlayson introduces Zora J Murff’s photography and collage.

‘He placed family portraits alongside a newspaper clipping recording the murder of his mother’s boyfriend.’ Ciarán Finlayson introduces Zora J Murff’s photography and collage. granta.com/he-trains-my...

granta.comGranta 176: American Berserk | GrantaAmerica was a country dreamed up by religious fanatics and realized through violence. Philip Roth...

A selection of pieces from Granta 176: American Berserk are free to read throughout October. granta.com/products/gra...

granta.comDathun | Amie Barrodale | Granta‘I got into the cart, turned it on, felt the hum. Waved at the guards. They fell back, hands folded at their groins.’ Fiction by Amie Barrodale.

‘Now Marty had a little bit of power, running the AC and the heaters, and over the months, he’d leveraged it. I mean, he treated me like a dog.’ New fiction by Amie Barrodale. granta.com/dathun/

granta.comMaking Cuba Great Again | William T. VollmannGranta‘Two men stood on the street – good enough for me. “And do you consider yourselves socialist or not?” I inquired.’ William T. Vollmann visits Cuba.

‘Two men stood on the street – good enough for me. “And do you consider yourselves socialist or not?” I inquired.’ William T. Vollmann visits Cuba. granta.com/making-cuba-...

granta.comGirls | Sophie Kemp | Granta‘I was alone driving from the East Coast of Florida to Joshua Tree, in California. That was a normal thing to do after a breakup.’

‘This is a crucial moment for a teenage girl. You realize you have got to get out, and that you’re obsessed with this about yourself.’ Sophie Kemp remembers what it felt like to be fifteen. granta.com/girls-sophie...

granta.comThree Poems | Patricia Lockwood | Granta‘My parents let other / People change my diaper, Nelson told him, / And now, I think, they should not have done / That.’ Three poems by Patricia Lockwood.

‘Being in another country is like / Being dead, you see how people / Go on without you’ Poetry by Patricia Lockwood. granta.com/three-poems-...

granta.comForgetter | Dan Hofstadter | Granta‘As a child I knew little about my father’s writing. He was just an amiable fellow sitting off to one side of our living room banging away at an old Underwood typewriter.’ Dan Hofstadter on family…

‘Why did this sweet-natured man, whose chosen role it was to recall and interpret the memories of a nation, never seem to remember my mother?’ Dan Hofstadter on his father, Richard Hofstadter. granta.com/forgetter/

granta.comGirls | Sophie Kemp | Granta‘I was alone driving from the East Coast of Florida to Joshua Tree, in California. That was a normal thing to do after a breakup.’

‘At school, I could never figure out girls like Savannah and Lily. The girls who went to house parties. Who were fluent socially. Who did not say every single thing that popped into their head.’ Sophie Kemp deconstructs the teenage experience. granta.com/girls-sophie...

granta.comPeople Keep Finding Bodies in Joshua Tree | Michael Robbins | Granta‘The author claims that “bodies / don’t bury themselves” / but the late ’90s taught me / otherwise.' A poem by Michael Robbins.

‘Our parents / never had a clue where we were. / It’s not that they trusted the world / but they consented to live in it.’ Poetry by Michael Robbins. granta.com/people-keep-...

‘When I was growing up, a huge disparity existed between my father as I knew him and his social image.’ Dan Hofstadter remembers his father, Richard Hofstadter, and his mother, Felice Swados. granta.com/forgetter/

granta.comFirst Year Sober & Sentimentality | Maggie Millner | Granta‘Imagine ruining your life, / I thought, / the ecstasy of that.’ Two poems by Maggie Millner.

‘I told myself / I wouldn’t do this anymore, this writing / about people like they’re things’ Poetry by Maggie Millner. granta.com/first-year-s...

granta.comBlood Boy | Hansen Shi | Granta‘I was the honest broker, a role I treated with reverence. My people understood that even though I wasn’t “technical”, I was one of them.’ Fiction by Hansen Shi.

‘I was the honest broker, a role I treated with reverence. My people understood that even though I wasn’t “technical”, I was one of them.’ Fiction by Hansen Shi. granta.com/blood-boy/

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granta.comMaking Cuba Great Again‘Two men stood on the street – good enough for me. “And do you consider yourselves socialist or not?” I inquired.’ William T. Vollmann visits Cuba.

Free to read for a short period! granta.com/making-cuba-...

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Michael Ledger-Lomas

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19 Sept

It's paywalled (rightly, as writers have to eat), but for me this confirms John Jeremiah Sullivan as about the greatest American writer writing now. What could be harder, what could be wiser than this? granta.com/acute-wing/

granta.comThe Acute Wing‘The man came away feeling bruised. Yet another shrink was walking around town and knew all about him, the worst and most shameful parts.’ Fiction by John Jeremiah Sullivan.

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Owen Booth

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20 Sept

New Mary Gaitskill story! granta.com/intercession/

granta.comIntercession‘She really did not know what to think about any of this. And still she had to walk through it. A lot of it.’ Fiction by Mary Gaitskill.

granta.comGirls | Sophie Kemp | Granta‘I was alone driving from the East Coast of Florida to Joshua Tree, in California. That was a normal thing to do after a breakup.’

22 Sept

granta.comFirst Year Sober & Sentimentality | Maggie Millner | Granta‘Imagine ruining your life, / I thought, / the ecstasy of that.’ Two poems by Maggie Millner.

21 Sept

‘I’d gotten myself into weird situations with men / selling underpriced home-goods before’ Poetry by Maggie Millner. granta.com/first-year-s...

21 Sept

‘Lisa told me the bully / I fantasized about taking apart / fell out of a tree, high, / and died, decades ago.’ Poetry by Michael Robbins. granta.com/people-keep-...

21 Sept

‘Rex was one of the leading men in Silicon Valley. Though our relationship was an unrecognized state, he had shown a promising anger the one time I mentioned going on a date.’ Fiction by Hansen Shi. granta.com/blood-boy/

granta.comGirls | Sophie Kemp | Granta‘I was alone driving from the East Coast of Florida to Joshua Tree, in California. That was a normal thing to do after a breakup.’

19 Sept

‘In Albuquerque Lily and Savannah spoke to me like they were in detention and I was forcing them to be there. These were teen girls par excellence. These were teen girls from a movie about teen girls.’ Sophie Kemp interviews teenage girls across America. granta.com/girls-sophie...

19 Sept

‘Childhood is a word like poem / Or clue – in fact it can be anything.’ Poetry by Patricia Lockwood. granta.com/three-poems-...

granta.comFirst Year Sober & Sentimentality | Maggie Millner | Granta‘Imagine ruining your life, / I thought, / the ecstasy of that.’ Two poems by Maggie Millner.

18 Sept

‘It was like a drug trip / dilated to the length of a life.’ Two poems by Maggie Millner. granta.com/first-year-s...

granta.comIntercession | Mary Gaitskill | Granta‘She really did not know what to think about any of this. And still she had to walk through it. A lot of it.’ Fiction by Mary Gaitskill.

‘She really did not know what to think about any of this. And still she had to walk through it. A lot of it.’ New fiction from Mary Gaitskill. granta.com/intercession/

granta.comGirls | Sophie Kemp | Granta‘I was alone driving from the East Coast of Florida to Joshua Tree, in California. That was a normal thing to do after a breakup.’

‘Overlooking the water from my rental car, I thought about the American Girl’s pupal stage. About my pupal stage. The moment when a girl becomes an extraordinary machine.’ Sophie Kemp on the American teenage girl. granta.com/girls-sophie...

‘He lifted my kimono to inspect my chastity cage with feigned disgust and nodded curtly. That was my cue to put on the blindfold.’ Fiction by Hansen Shi. granta.com/blood-boy/

‘You can see why all the freaks / end up in the desert. / Saint Anthony, Manson, / Brigham Young.’ Poetry by Michael Robbins. granta.com/people-keep-...

granta.comArc de Trump | Antonia Hitchens | Granta‘He explained that he hadn’t wanted to buy the branded Trump iPhone, but it had briefly seemed like everyone in Washington was expected to purchase one.’ Antonia Hitchens visits Washington, D.C.

16 Sept

‘I often hear discussions about who is a true believer, and who is cosplaying belief. “He’s not even really racist,” a longtime consultant sighed to me recently.’ Antonia Hitchens visits Washington, D.C. granta.com/arc-de-trump/

granta.comThree Poems | Frederick Seidel | Granta‘A man has spent his happy life / Shooting an apple off the top of the head of his lovely wife / But every time missing, / Even using a shotgun’ Three poems by Frederick Seidel.

16 Sept

‘The Beast lies down / At the feet of Air Force One. / The heavy door is opened.’ Poetry by Frederick Seidel. granta.com/three-poems-...

granta.comIntercession | Mary Gaitskill | Granta‘She really did not know what to think about any of this. And still she had to walk through it. A lot of it.’ Fiction by Mary Gaitskill.

16 Sept

‘Maybe these particular friends were particularly crazy because – like her – they’d never had children. Perhaps this explained why her marriage was weird?’ New fiction from Mary Gaitskill. granta.com/intercession/

15 Sept

‘Frosty, my grandmother’s horse, / was kind of a dick / and once bit her “on the tit” / as she liked to tell visitors.’ Poetry by Michael Robbins. granta.com/people-keep-...

15 Sept

‘We heard the news in the airport / Where two people were standing / Nose to nose and kissing’ Three poems by Patricia Lockwood. granta.com/three-poems-...

14 Sept

‘In this business, whoever controlled the talent controlled everything.’ Silicon Valley, ambition and desire in new fiction by Hansen Shi. granta.com/blood-boy/

14 Sept

‘“I was looking for the most interesting dopamine hit.” He thought working for Trump would deliver it.’ Antonia Hitchens reports from D.C. granta.com/arc-de-trump/

granta.comThe Acute Wing | John Jeremiah Sullivan | Granta‘The man came away feeling bruised. Yet another shrink was walking around town and knew all about him, the worst and most shameful parts.’ Fiction by John Jeremiah Sullivan.

14 Sept

‘The man came away feeling bruised. Yet another shrink was walking around town and knew all about him, the worst and most shameful parts.’ Fiction by John Jeremiah Sullivan. granta.com/acute-wing/

‘In a private browser he scanned video after video of girls who looked just like Sabrina with bottomless throats and buoyant breasts.’ Fiction by Halle Hill. granta.com/year-of-the-...

granta.comIntercession | Mary Gaitskill | Granta‘She really did not know what to think about any of this. And still she had to walk through it. A lot of it.’ Fiction by Mary Gaitskill.

‘One day she came home and found that she could not be with her husband; even though they were in the same room, she could not fully be with him.’ Mary Gaitskill on modern relationships. granta.com/intercession/

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Roz

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