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@grantamag.bsky.social‘Look, the / blessings should surprise you, not / the pain.’
A poem by Anne Carson for Granta 171: Dead Friends.
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@grantamag.bsky.social@grantamag.bsky.social‘I descend to confront – a visitor! After the jam? I think so. Or the gin.’
‘Visitors Rev. 4’ by Anne Carson.
@grantamag.bsky.social‘the surrealists are here / the ice cream is here / a clash of ethnographies is here’
A poem by Anne Carson.
@grantamag.bsky.social‘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.
@grantamag.bsky.social‘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.
@grantamag.bsky.social‘These jokes are your defense.’
A short story by Anne Carson from Granta 145: Ghosts.
@grantamag.bsky.socialWe 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.
@seanminogue.bsky.socialReposted by @grantamag.bsky.socialFinally digging through my TBR pile and this essay from Sheila Heti is so, so good.
@ronanhession.bsky.socialReposted by @grantamag.bsky.socialDeep cut from the June @grantamag.bsky.social
Merve Emre interviews Jon Fosse and Marilynne Robinson about God.
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@grantamag.bsky.social‘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.
@grantamag.bsky.social‘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.
@grantamag.bsky.social‘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.
@grantamag.bsky.social‘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.
@grantamag.bsky.socialA selection of pieces from Granta 176: American Berserk are free to read throughout October.
@grantamag.bsky.social‘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.
@grantamag.bsky.social‘Being in another country is like / Being dead, you see how people / Go on without you’
Poetry by Patricia Lockwood.
@grantamag.bsky.social‘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.
@grantamag.bsky.social‘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.
@grantamag.bsky.social‘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.
@grantamag.bsky.social‘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.