Thomas Meaney

Stop all the clocks: the spring issue of Granta 171: Dead Friends brings vital figures from one's past momentarily back into focus. Eschewing dewy-eyed remembrances and dry obituaries, features include Fernanda Eberstadt on Andy Warhol, Aatish Taseer on V.S. Naipaul, Tao Lin on Giancarlo DiTrapano, Michel Houellebecq on Benoît Duteurtre, William Atkins on a new method to dispose of mortal...

No nation boasts more manufacturing capacity than the People's Republic of China, yet few countries' literary products are less known in the English-speaking world. Witnesses to the country's revolutionary modernisation, China's writers have experienced historical whiplashes and sprints forward on an extreme scale. The zhiqing - the educated youth whom Mao 'sent down' to the countryside and who experienced a...

The spring issue of Granta 167 focuses on the theme of extraction, examining the worldwide effort to source new materials for the Green transition. Authors featured in this edition include Camilla Grudova, Carlos Fonseca, Eka Kurniawan, Anjan Sundaram, Will Atkins, Bathsheba Demuth, James Pogue, Laleh Khalili, and Christian Lorentzen.

India is familiar ground for Granta, having devoted two classic issues to the country, though much has changed since the last dispatch, published on the cusp of the Modi era. 173 will feature exceptional contemporary fiction and poetry in translation, as well as articles dedicated to the Indian space program; the bloody twilight of the Naxalites in Jharkhand; archaeology wars,...

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game. Any schoolchild can smell the rat in the adage. Everybody knows a game is not worth watching unless the players are trying to win - unless someone is willing to risk the high tackle, smash the serve, steal the base, or throw the knock-out punch. The winter...

The autumn issue of Granta 165 will include fiction by Judith Hermann and Clemens Meyer (translated by Katy Derbyshire) and essays by Lauren Oyler, Lutz Seiler (translated by Martyn Crucefix), and Peter Richter. Plus, a poem by Frederick Seidel, and photography by Ilyes Griyeb with an introduction by Imogen West-Knights.

"The most highly praised literary magazine. Remarkably, praise is deserved"New York Times The summer issue of Granta 172: Badlands includes non-fiction from William T. Vollmann, reporting from the birthplace of Joseph Roth in Brody, Ukraine, and James Pogue on the marijuana-growing communities of Mt. Shasta Vista.

Baby-boomers, gen-X, millennials, zoomers: the dividing lines among generations in literary culture have become stark to the point of parody. Granta 166 tests the limits of each generation's given definition in popular culture against the reality of its most sharply observed fiction. Stories by Andrew O'Hagan, Brandon Taylor, Nico Walker and Lillian Fishman fill an issue that captures the change...

When Sigmund Freud died, Auden wrote 'he is no more a person now but a whole climate of opinion.' Something similar could be said for therapy today. We live in a therapeutic age. It is generally accepted that the world of subconsciousness plays into all of our thoughts and actions, and that, in the hands of experts, it can be...

Granta's 2026 spring issue is dedicated to contemporary writing from Scandinavia, marking the first time it has solely focused on the region.

America was a country dreamed up by religious fanatics and realised through violence. Philip Roth gave a name for this 'blessed rage for purity': the 'indigenous American Berserk'. Granta 176 looks at what's left of this vicious drive, in all its most virulent and florid strains. The American Berserk is the true psychogeography of the country, its dark underbelly. It's...

With a focus on energetic and voice-driven fiction, our summer issue will be centred on desire: crushes, companionship, delusion and devastation. Kevin Brazil, Sophie Collins, Victor Heringer and Alexandra Tanner, among others, query what it means to refract ourselves through others and have our identities designed, upheld or crushed by the people we love. In non-fiction, Snigdha Poonam writes on...