From the archive, 2020: ‘Some days you are pleased, when singing at least a few notes, by the sound of your voice. On other days you are very distressed, feel your heart sink and want to cry.’ Lydia Davis on learning to sing. granta.com/learning-to-si…

‘Because my father could not remember the name for spoon, it came to a point when he would not mention spoons, or all the other things he had forgotten that week or month.’ New fiction from Diana Evans granta.com/duty/

Applications for the Granta Writers’ Workshop courses are closing soon. For each course, Writing Memoir, Long-Form Journalism and Literary Short Fiction, one fully funded bursary place is available for a writer who would not otherwise be able to join. workshops.granta.com/courses/

‘Inside, the box is filled with horrible people: Henry had expected homosexuals, but in fact it is family, all the other Lancaster cousins.’ Fiction by Allen Bratton. granta.com/barbarism/

From the archive, 1998: Richard Lloyd Parry on the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis. ‘To travel around Java at this time was to experience a little of what it might have felt like to be a foreign tourist after the collapse of the mark in Weimar Germany.’ granta.com/after-the-cras…

Two days left to apply for our Writing Memoir and Literary Long-Form Journalism workshops. A fully funded bursary place is available for those in financial need. Complete your application by 2 September to be considered. workshops.granta.com/courses/

‘I find transcripts fascinating: a trial is translated, and reduced, from an event to a text.’ Helen Garner and Izabella Scott on witnessing the machinations of the law and decoding legal transcripts. granta.com/in-conversatio…

From the archive, 1994: ‘The poolboy is walking towards me slowly, and the sun is beating down, and I’m spreading my legs and rubbing oil on the inside of my thighs and then across my knees and ankles.’ End of summer heat from Brett Easton Ellis. granta.com/the-up-escalat…

‘I think that Western scholarship and thinking has emphasised one form of knowing, but there are other ways of knowing.’ m nourbeSe philip and Momtaza Mehri. on undoing categorisation and embracing different forms of knowledge. granta.com/nourbese-phili…

‘People say it’s healthy for couples to fight, it means there’s still passion. I’ve always assumed that was bullshit, but now I’m not sure.’ Fiction by Brad Phillips. granta.com/sidney

‘Being recognised as part of a couple thrilled me; I felt legitimised. John had a life, a full life.’ A woman finds herself in thrall to an older artist in new fiction by Sophie Collins. granta.com/private-view/

Our summer issue: Significant Other, is now available for only £11.99 – a 20% savings off the cover price. granta.com/products/grant…

‘She grew up on the Bogside and ended up working as an HR manager at KPMG. She knows you have to keep going forward no matter what. I mean everybody sort of knows that, but she really knows it.’ Fiction by Rachel Connolly. granta.com/and-of-the-son/

‘These self-portraits stun with their unexpected compositions – a body posed in unlovely and awkward postures.’ Lynne Tillman on Rosalind Fox Solomon’s nudes. granta.com/a-woman-i-once…

“Private View” by Sophie Collins in Granta granta.com/private-view/

Applications to Granta’s Short Fiction course close soon. In each session of this nine-week course you will read like a writer and editor, experiment with craft skills, workshop ideas, and consider the conversation with your reader. Apply today: workshops.granta.com/courses/short-…

‘Her voice was a shudder, her songs evocative enough to lend a cinematic vastness to my sadness’ Momtaza Mehri (momtaza mehri 💆🏾‍♀️) on Sinéad O’Connor’s legacy. granta.com/universal-moth…

‘The script of script production rather followed the script of sex: it was intimate, exciting, boundary-crossing, and left the participants changed.’ Susan Pedersen on paranormal affairs and the Balfour family. granta.com/the-messiah-of…

The latest episode of the Granta Podcast is available now, with Rachel Kushner on the mystery of prehistory and the true depth of a cave. Here she reads from Creation Lake, her latest novel. granta.com/podcast-rachel…

‘I convinced myself that eating chicken would wreck me.’ An essay by Thom Sliwowski on chicken, abstinence and polyamory. granta.com/chicken-crazy/