The Best of Granta
9 most popular Granta articles, as voted by our community.
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Last Week at Marienbad
‘In Marienbad we were relieved from the feeling that we’d missed a heyday – we did, but it doesn’t matter.’
Granta on Astrology
Granta on History
The Killing of a Berlin Power Broker
‘Why does the centre of Berlin look like an abandoned shopping mall on the edge of Omaha?’ An essay from Peter Richter, translated by Shaun Whiteside.
Cairo Song | Wiam El-Tamami
‘We did not know until then that there was a “we”. And that there were so many of us. So many of us who needed so much to change.’
Granta on Language
Many Words for Heat, Many Words for Hate
‘In Delhi the heat is chemical, something unworldly, a dry bandage or heating pad wrapped around the body.’ Memoir by Amitava Kumar.
Granta on Poems
Two Poems | Akwaeke Emezi
‘joseph uncle is ghost-quiet / the kind of man you can’t scream at’ Poems by Akwaeke Emezi.
Granta on Writing
Notes on Craft | Lee Lai
‘I’ve loved experiencing the page as a map, as something to be wandered across.’ Lee Lai on the function of page and panel in comics.
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For the Love of Losing
‘Winning, it turns out, was the cracking whip that meant gamblers had to stay where they were until they lost their money all over again.’Marina Benjamin on losing.
Notes on Craft | Jonathan Lee
Author of The Great Mistake discusses the importance of opening lines.
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