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‘There were pleasantries. There were commiserations for the state of the nation. There was solidarity. There was gossip, too, as much as a shared abhorrence of other, more successful writers can provide.’
Fiction by Tanuj Solanki.
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Fiction by Tanuj Solanki.
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Appropriation | Tanuj Solanki |Granta
‘Weren’t Jyoti’s long run-on sentences also a way to show off, an exercise in breathlessness and nothing else?’ Fiction by Tanuj Solanki.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM
‘There were pleasantries. There were commiserations for the state of the nation. There was solidarity. There was gossip, too, as much as a shared abhorrence of other, more successful writers can provide.’
Fiction by Tanuj Solanki.
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Fiction by Tanuj Solanki.
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‘My mother’s use of ellipses doesn’t reveal a pattern or convey a tone. She’ll “. . .” in good times and bad. Excited, pensive, disappointed or otherwise.’
Madeline Cash on the Boomer generation’s love of ellipses.
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Madeline Cash on the Boomer generation’s love of ellipses.
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Connecting the Dots | Madeline Cash | Granta
‘There’s an extensive online discourse on the Baby Boomer generation’s penchant for ellipses. “OK . . .” “Thanks . . .” “See you next week . . .”’
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November 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM
‘My mother’s use of ellipses doesn’t reveal a pattern or convey a tone. She’ll “. . .” in good times and bad. Excited, pensive, disappointed or otherwise.’
Madeline Cash on the Boomer generation’s love of ellipses.
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Madeline Cash on the Boomer generation’s love of ellipses.
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I used to read Granta back in my twenties. It made me really happy to read it, and I hadn’t seen it since then. So cool to find it here again.
November 20, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I used to read Granta back in my twenties. It made me really happy to read it, and I hadn’t seen it since then. So cool to find it here again.
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A Granta series on punctuation and grammar: lol's, transitive verbs, ellipses, quotation marks, line breaks, xox's... 🤗
Mark Up | Granta
For an online series, Mark Up, we invited writers to tell us their thoughts on...
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November 20, 2025 at 6:54 PM
A Granta series on punctuation and grammar: lol's, transitive verbs, ellipses, quotation marks, line breaks, xox's... 🤗
‘Weren’t Jyoti’s long run-on sentences also a way to show off, an exercise in breathlessness and nothing else?’
Fiction by Tanuj Solanki.
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Fiction by Tanuj Solanki.
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Appropriation | Tanuj Solanki |Granta
‘Weren’t Jyoti’s long run-on sentences also a way to show off, an exercise in breathlessness and nothing else?’ Fiction by Tanuj Solanki.
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November 22, 2025 at 1:45 PM
‘Weren’t Jyoti’s long run-on sentences also a way to show off, an exercise in breathlessness and nothing else?’
Fiction by Tanuj Solanki.
granta.com/appropriation/
Fiction by Tanuj Solanki.
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‘Her ellipsis is a modernism of its own: the pause of someone caught between analog warmth and digital brevity.’
Madeline Cash on ellipses, from Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway to her mother’s text messages.
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Madeline Cash on ellipses, from Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway to her mother’s text messages.
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Connecting the Dots | Madeline Cash | Granta
‘There’s an extensive online discourse on the Baby Boomer generation’s penchant for ellipses. “OK . . .” “Thanks . . .” “See you next week . . .”’
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November 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
‘Her ellipsis is a modernism of its own: the pause of someone caught between analog warmth and digital brevity.’
Madeline Cash on ellipses, from Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway to her mother’s text messages.
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Madeline Cash on ellipses, from Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway to her mother’s text messages.
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‘When I was writing Victory City (2023), one of the things I was writing against was Naipaul’s portrait of the Vijayanagara empire.’
Salman Rushdie on Indian literature.
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Salman Rushdie on Indian literature.
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Reclaiming the Territory | Salman Rushdie | Granta
‘It was awful to get sued by the prime minister of India.’ Granta interviews Salman Rushdie about his dealings with the magazine, the course of Indian fiction, and his brushes with Indian politics.
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November 20, 2025 at 12:02 PM
‘When I was writing Victory City (2023), one of the things I was writing against was Naipaul’s portrait of the Vijayanagara empire.’
Salman Rushdie on Indian literature.
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Salman Rushdie on Indian literature.
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‘Listening to them gave me a new understanding of their works and of fiction in general. Or of fiction in India. Or of the art of fiction in 2020. Well, something like that. The word appropriation began to ring in my head.’
Fiction by Tanuj Solanki.
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Fiction by Tanuj Solanki.
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Appropriation | Tanuj Solanki |Granta
‘Weren’t Jyoti’s long run-on sentences also a way to show off, an exercise in breathlessness and nothing else?’ Fiction by Tanuj Solanki.
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November 19, 2025 at 1:44 PM
‘Listening to them gave me a new understanding of their works and of fiction in general. Or of fiction in India. Or of the art of fiction in 2020. Well, something like that. The word appropriation began to ring in my head.’
Fiction by Tanuj Solanki.
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Fiction by Tanuj Solanki.
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‘For these Sikhs, Punjab had become a mythical landscape.’
Karan Mahajan on Sikh diaspora and the Khalistani movement.
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Karan Mahajan on Sikh diaspora and the Khalistani movement.
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The Killing of a Canadian Sikh | Karan Mahajan | Granta
‘What appeared to be a single extrajudicial killing now looked like a program to eliminate Khalistani activists across North America.’ Karan Mahajan on the killing of a Canadian Sikh.
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November 19, 2025 at 12:02 PM
‘For these Sikhs, Punjab had become a mythical landscape.’
Karan Mahajan on Sikh diaspora and the Khalistani movement.
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Karan Mahajan on Sikh diaspora and the Khalistani movement.
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‘I didn’t mention Shami to my wife, I am not sure why. Maybe, deep down, I wanted to keep her a secret.’
Fiction by Vivek Shanbhag, translated by Srinath Perur.
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Fiction by Vivek Shanbhag, translated by Srinath Perur.
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A Measure of Martyrdom | Vivek Shanbhag | Granta
‘I didn’t mention Shami to my wife, I am not sure why. Maybe, deep down, I wanted to keep her a secret.’ Fiction by Vivek Shanbhag translated by Srinath Perur.
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November 18, 2025 at 12:01 PM
‘I didn’t mention Shami to my wife, I am not sure why. Maybe, deep down, I wanted to keep her a secret.’
Fiction by Vivek Shanbhag, translated by Srinath Perur.
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Fiction by Vivek Shanbhag, translated by Srinath Perur.
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‘A seasoned texter knows that colloquially the dot-dot-dot is a cliffhanger and its receiver should heed the punctuation accordingly.’
Madeline Cash interprets the modern ellipses.
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Madeline Cash interprets the modern ellipses.
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Connecting the Dots | Madeline Cash | Granta
‘There’s an extensive online discourse on the Baby Boomer generation’s penchant for ellipses. “OK . . .” “Thanks . . .” “See you next week . . .”’
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November 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
‘A seasoned texter knows that colloquially the dot-dot-dot is a cliffhanger and its receiver should heed the punctuation accordingly.’
Madeline Cash interprets the modern ellipses.
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Madeline Cash interprets the modern ellipses.
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‘How easy it was to come back and give the daughter a father and the father a daughter, when she was small and he was big.’
Fiction by Geetanjali Shree, translated by Daisy Rockwell.
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Fiction by Geetanjali Shree, translated by Daisy Rockwell.
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All at Once | Geetanjali Shree | Granta
‘On the surface, everything had continued as it always had, so why would it occur to anyone to pay any special attention?’
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November 17, 2025 at 12:01 PM
‘How easy it was to come back and give the daughter a father and the father a daughter, when she was small and he was big.’
Fiction by Geetanjali Shree, translated by Daisy Rockwell.
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Fiction by Geetanjali Shree, translated by Daisy Rockwell.
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‘The downpour across those two days in July caused the deaths of around a thousand people. In September, millions were still terrified at the sight of the smallest raincloud.’
Yash Sheth’s photography from Mumbai’s monsoon season, introduced by Ruchir Joshi.
Yash Sheth’s photography from Mumbai’s monsoon season, introduced by Ruchir Joshi.
Come Rain, Come Down | Yash Sheth & Ruchir Joshi | Granta
‘It feels as though Bombay has invented rain for itself.’ Yash Sheth’s photography from Mumbais monsoon season, introduced by Ruchir Joshi.
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November 16, 2025 at 12:01 PM
‘The downpour across those two days in July caused the deaths of around a thousand people. In September, millions were still terrified at the sight of the smallest raincloud.’
Yash Sheth’s photography from Mumbai’s monsoon season, introduced by Ruchir Joshi.
Yash Sheth’s photography from Mumbai’s monsoon season, introduced by Ruchir Joshi.
‘We began to take turns playing this game. Vikram would repeat the dialogue from the film and we’d let go of the rail for a moment, one after the other.’
Fiction by Umesh Solanki, translated by Gopika Jadeja.
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Fiction by Umesh Solanki, translated by Gopika Jadeja.
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Transformations | Umesh Solanki | Granta
‘I never felt like going to Jivo’s house. I used to think, “A Bhangya’s house, the house of the lowest of untouchables, is dirty.”’Fiction by Umesh Solanki, translated by Gopika Jadeja.
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November 15, 2025 at 12:01 PM
‘We began to take turns playing this game. Vikram would repeat the dialogue from the film and we’d let go of the rail for a moment, one after the other.’
Fiction by Umesh Solanki, translated by Gopika Jadeja.
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Fiction by Umesh Solanki, translated by Gopika Jadeja.
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The latest episode of the Granta podcast features Zoe Dubno, author of Happiness and Love (2025).
We discuss the New York art scene, her novel and its relationship with Thomas Bernhard’s Woodcutters, and the differences between homage and appropriation.
We discuss the New York art scene, her novel and its relationship with Thomas Bernhard’s Woodcutters, and the differences between homage and appropriation.
November 14, 2025 at 6:30 PM
The latest episode of the Granta podcast features Zoe Dubno, author of Happiness and Love (2025).
We discuss the New York art scene, her novel and its relationship with Thomas Bernhard’s Woodcutters, and the differences between homage and appropriation.
We discuss the New York art scene, her novel and its relationship with Thomas Bernhard’s Woodcutters, and the differences between homage and appropriation.
‘There’s an extensive online discourse on the Baby Boomer generation’s penchant for ellipses. “OK . . .” “Thanks . . .” “See you next week . . .”’
Madeline Cash decodes the Boomer ellipses.
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Madeline Cash decodes the Boomer ellipses.
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Connecting the Dots | Madeline Cash | Granta
‘There’s an extensive online discourse on the Baby Boomer generation’s penchant for ellipses. “OK . . .” “Thanks . . .” “See you next week . . .”’
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November 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM
‘There’s an extensive online discourse on the Baby Boomer generation’s penchant for ellipses. “OK . . .” “Thanks . . .” “See you next week . . .”’
Madeline Cash decodes the Boomer ellipses.
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Madeline Cash decodes the Boomer ellipses.
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Congratulations to David Szalay, whose novel ‘Flesh’ won the 2025 Booker Prize.
An excerpt of ‘Flesh’ is available to read here.
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An excerpt of ‘Flesh’ is available to read here.
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Flesh | David Szalay | Granta
‘A moment later he’s aware of the wetness inside his trousers, and then the smell of it. It feels like a disaster, what’s happened.’ Fiction by David Szalay
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November 11, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Congratulations to David Szalay, whose novel ‘Flesh’ won the 2025 Booker Prize.
An excerpt of ‘Flesh’ is available to read here.
granta.com/flesh/
An excerpt of ‘Flesh’ is available to read here.
granta.com/flesh/
‘I think young writers starting out in India now might not feel what I felt, which is that I couldn’t actually start out there.’
Salman Rushdie on the evolution of Indian literature.
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Salman Rushdie on the evolution of Indian literature.
granta.com/reclaiming-t...
Reclaiming the Territory | Salman Rushdie | Granta
‘It was awful to get sued by the prime minister of India.’ Granta interviews Salman Rushdie about his dealings with the magazine, the course of Indian fiction, and his brushes with Indian politics.
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November 14, 2025 at 12:02 PM
‘I think young writers starting out in India now might not feel what I felt, which is that I couldn’t actually start out there.’
Salman Rushdie on the evolution of Indian literature.
granta.com/reclaiming-t...
Salman Rushdie on the evolution of Indian literature.
granta.com/reclaiming-t...
‘She wanted to be seen as someone who was precocious, and was trying, perhaps without her own knowledge, to convey this to me.’
Fiction by Vivek Shanbhag, translated by Srinath Perur.
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Fiction by Vivek Shanbhag, translated by Srinath Perur.
granta.com/a-measure-fo...
A Measure of Martyrdom | Vivek Shanbhag | Granta
‘I didn’t mention Shami to my wife, I am not sure why. Maybe, deep down, I wanted to keep her a secret.’ Fiction by Vivek Shanbhag translated by Srinath Perur.
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November 13, 2025 at 12:01 PM
‘She wanted to be seen as someone who was precocious, and was trying, perhaps without her own knowledge, to convey this to me.’
Fiction by Vivek Shanbhag, translated by Srinath Perur.
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Fiction by Vivek Shanbhag, translated by Srinath Perur.
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‘I’ve always accepted my mother’s overuse of ellipses as an idiosyncrasy of an elderly texter. But she doesn’t reserve the ‘. . .’ for ominous messages.’
Madeline Cash on texting, technology and misunderstandings.
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Madeline Cash on texting, technology and misunderstandings.
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Connecting the Dots | Madeline Cash | Granta
‘There’s an extensive online discourse on the Baby Boomer generation’s penchant for ellipses. “OK . . .” “Thanks . . .” “See you next week . . .”’
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November 12, 2025 at 6:32 PM
‘I’ve always accepted my mother’s overuse of ellipses as an idiosyncrasy of an elderly texter. But she doesn’t reserve the ‘. . .’ for ominous messages.’
Madeline Cash on texting, technology and misunderstandings.
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Madeline Cash on texting, technology and misunderstandings.
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Rejecting nostalgic accounts of the nation-state in postcolonial India, our essay of the week foregrounds the contradictions in elite formation, English’s ambivalent role, and the legacy of Marxist and subaltern thought.
With Sanjay Subrahmanyam in @grantamag.bsky.social
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With Sanjay Subrahmanyam in @grantamag.bsky.social
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November 12, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Rejecting nostalgic accounts of the nation-state in postcolonial India, our essay of the week foregrounds the contradictions in elite formation, English’s ambivalent role, and the legacy of Marxist and subaltern thought.
With Sanjay Subrahmanyam in @grantamag.bsky.social
buff.ly/d6UkGMa
With Sanjay Subrahmanyam in @grantamag.bsky.social
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‘What appeared to be a single extrajudicial killing now looked like a program to eliminate Khalistani activists across North America.’
Karan Mahajan on the killing of a Canadian Sikh.
granta.com/the-killing-...
Karan Mahajan on the killing of a Canadian Sikh.
granta.com/the-killing-...
The Killing of a Canadian Sikh | Karan Mahajan | Granta
‘What appeared to be a single extrajudicial killing now looked like a program to eliminate Khalistani activists across North America.’ Karan Mahajan on the killing of a Canadian Sikh.
granta.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
‘What appeared to be a single extrajudicial killing now looked like a program to eliminate Khalistani activists across North America.’
Karan Mahajan on the killing of a Canadian Sikh.
granta.com/the-killing-...
Karan Mahajan on the killing of a Canadian Sikh.
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I always enjoy reading Sanjay Subrahmanyam, and this interview on modern Indians' fraught relationship with liberalism, history, and nationalism is a good one.
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Indian Temptations
‘I understand that there is a temptation to bring everything in India, whether it’s literature, music or art, around to its relationship to nationalism. But as my friends in the art world have always ...
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November 10, 2025 at 6:34 AM
I always enjoy reading Sanjay Subrahmanyam, and this interview on modern Indians' fraught relationship with liberalism, history, and nationalism is a good one.
granta.com/indian-tempt...
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Some zingers but more insights in this Granta interview of historian Sanjay Subrahmanyam 🗃️
Indian Temptations
‘I understand that there is a temptation to bring everything in India, whether it’s literature, music or art, around to its relationship to nationalism. But as my friends in the art world have always ...
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November 11, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Some zingers but more insights in this Granta interview of historian Sanjay Subrahmanyam 🗃️
Congratulations to David Szalay, whose novel ‘Flesh’ won the 2025 Booker Prize.
An excerpt of ‘Flesh’ is available to read here.
granta.com/flesh/
An excerpt of ‘Flesh’ is available to read here.
granta.com/flesh/
Flesh | David Szalay | Granta
‘A moment later he’s aware of the wetness inside his trousers, and then the smell of it. It feels like a disaster, what’s happened.’ Fiction by David Szalay
granta.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Congratulations to David Szalay, whose novel ‘Flesh’ won the 2025 Booker Prize.
An excerpt of ‘Flesh’ is available to read here.
granta.com/flesh/
An excerpt of ‘Flesh’ is available to read here.
granta.com/flesh/