‘The footage of Modi’s dive, however, only shows the submerged prime minister; nothing of the submerged city.’ Raghu Karnad on the relationship between archaeology and nationalism. granta.com/under-the-ru...

‘This mania with banning and censorship goes back a long way, and concerns both books and films. Repressive colonial habits die hard.’ Granta interviews Sanjay Subrahmanyam on Indian history, literature, and his intellectual trajectory. granta.com/indian-tempt...

‘With no doctors, no electricity, no running water, no paved roads, no functioning school, and no sewage system – the insurgents were not so much co-opting a society as building one.’  Snigdha Poonam visits Jharkhand and the Naxalites. granta.com/the-thin-red...

‘Two men set about undressing him. They led the naked boy by the hand, sat him down on the clay platform, spread their palms across his shoulders, and pressed him down.’  Fiction by Jeyamohan, translated by Priyamvada Ramkumar. granta.com/jeyamohan/

'Narendra Modi, seventy-three, had a spherical aquatic helmet placed over his head. He was lowered into the waves.’ Raghu Karnad on Modi and an alleged underwater Hindu archaeological site. granta.com/under-the-ru...

‘People are inchoate, irrational – constantly on the verge of discovering who they are and then swerving away at the last moment.’ The latest episode of the Granta podcast features Karan Mahajan and is available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts now. granta.com/podcast-kara...

ICYMI: @grantamag.bsky.social published poems from the Poetry in Translation Prize shortlist. The inaugural winner of the prize will be announced in January 2026. Read them here: granta.com/the-poetry-i...

Granta contributors and friends reflect on their year in reading. granta.com/a-year-in-re...

In partnership with Fitzcarraldo Editions, Giramondo and New Directions, Granta is pleased to presents extracts from the eight shortlisted collections for the Poetry in Translation Prize 2025. granta.com/the-poetry-i...

Granta magazine is now on Substack. Follow to receive exclusive material, starting with Granta staff’s recommendations on the best books they read this year. grantamag.substack.com/p/a-year-in-...

‘Rhetorical questions in contemporary fiction and memoir offer a different ideology, something that hews closer to the Jewish mystic tradition of asking questions at Passover or the contemplative prayer of Trappist monk Thomas Merton.’ Grace Byron on asking questions. granta.com/doubting-tho...

I've just read this story, and it's so good! Such a perfect portrayal of the narrator through his thoughts. I now want to read more by Vivek Shanbhag. #shortstory #storytelling

‘The punctuation family is a close-knit one, with barely half a dozen members, but there is an outlying tribe of more or less distant cousins.’ Adam Mars-Jones on lesser-known punctuations marks. granta.com/apotheosis-o...

In partnership with Fitzcarraldo Editions, Giramondo and New Directions, Granta is pleased to presents extracts from the eight shortlisted collections for the Poetry in Translation Prize 2025. granta.com/the-poetry-i...

Granta contributors and friends reflect on their year in reading. granta.com/a-year-in-re...

definitely my favourite subscription & really excited about this issue

‘Sometimes questions lead the way and sometimes they block it. This is the paradox of the interrogative.’ Grace Byron on abandoning the promise of easy answers. granta.com/doubting-tho...

We are saddened to hear of the death of Martin Parr, whose photography featured on the cover of Granta 98: The Deep End. He will be missed. granta.com/products/gra...

‘The question mark has a bad reputation. It’s unruly, a rebel feeding on chaos.’  Grace Byron on faith, doubt and teenage rebellion.  granta.com/doubting-tho...

‘In the Evangelical church we were supposed to accept the answers we were given as final. Questions and doubts were met hesitantly, like youthful rebellion.’ Grace Byron on embracing questions.  granta.com/doubting-tho...

‘These were fraught times, and not just because of the virus. The most pressing question for Indian writers – whose stories should we tell? – was burning blazingly.’ Fiction by Tanuj Solanki. granta.com/appropriation/

‘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. granta.com/appropriation/

‘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. granta.com/connecting-t...

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.

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. granta.com/appropriation/

‘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. granta.com/connecting-t...

‘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. granta.com/reclaiming-t...

‘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. granta.com/appropriation/

‘For these Sikhs, Punjab had become a mythical landscape.’ Karan Mahajan on Sikh diaspora and the Khalistani movement. granta.com/the-killing-...

‘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. granta.com/a-measure-fo...

‘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. granta.com/connecting-t...

‘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. granta.com/all-at-once/

‘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.

‘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. granta.com/transformati...

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.

‘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. granta.com/connecting-t...

Congratulations to David Szalay, whose novel ‘Flesh’ won the 2025 Booker Prize. 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. 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. granta.com/a-measure-fo...

‘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. granta.com/connecting-t...

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

‘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-...

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/

A terrific interview with Salman Rushdie about his history with Granta. Bill Buford published the first chapter of 'Midnight's Children' in the magazine before the book was out and without Rushdie even knowing. granta.com/reclaiming-t...

Flesh really is a superb novel; if you'd like a taster, this is an excerpt published in Granta earlier this year - not exactly the same as the passage in the book, but very much gives the flavour (and also contains a huge, crippling OOF at the end) granta.com/flesh/

‘Kannada literature goes back over a thousand years, and it has had the depth – and confidence – to absorb English influences while holding its own.’  Srinath Perur on translating Kannada. granta.com/kannada/

‘One Sunday, she accompanied her mother to a devotional gathering. The host, a family friend, had become a member of a mission called the Society.’  Fiction by Devika Rege. granta.com/homa/