Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein review – life in limbo
Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein review – a masterly meditation on life as a survivor
June 2023
Books interview
Eliza Clark: ‘I’m more primary school teacher than enfant terrible’
Female novelists don’t need their own prizes. Let’s abolish them
Martha Gill
April 2023
The Guardian view on Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists: why we love a list
Editorial: Yes, they are marketing tools – but cataloguing culture says much about the society we live in
Why so much hype? Being on Granta’s best young novelists list has its drawbacks
Sarah Hall
In 2013, I was one of the chosen 20. Today, I still question the accolades and gimmickry around making the grade
Observer book of the week
Granta 163: Best of Young British Novelists 5 review – more solipsism than state of the nation
Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists – meet the class of 23
Granta reveals its pick of future star British novelists
October 2022
Ian Jack obituary
‘A great inspiration’: tributes to journalist Ian Jack after death aged 77
No journalist had a deeper sense of history than Ian Jack
Donald Macintyre
Ian Jack, Guardian columnist and former Granta editor, dies aged 77
November 2021
Notebook
Lloyd George defined ‘profiteer’ more than a century ago. It may be time to revisit it
Tim Adams
The scandal of PPE procurement is surely reason enough for the term to be debated in parliament
May 2021
Books interview
Mateo García Elizondo: ‘I get a little bored by having to talk about my grandfather’
The writer – and grandson of Gabriel García Márquez – on Mexican folklore, his early love of horror and learning to live with the family’s literary legacy
June 2019
Binyavanga Wainaina obituary
Kenyan writer and LGBT activist who made a revolutionary impact on literature from and about the African continent
October 2017
Books blog
Male writers still dominate book reviews and critic jobs, Vida study finds
The annual Vida count of authors across the world suggests about two-thirds of those published, and the critics who review them, are men – but their intersectionality survey is less conclusive
September 2017
Mayhem by Sigrid Rausing review – behind the ghoulish tabloid headlines
‘I see my complicity, my guilt,’ the author writes in this powerful memoir of her drug-addict brother, Eva Rausing’s death and their lives of privilege
June 2017
Ekow Eshun: ‘I dreaded going to sleep for fear of seeing him’
Success allowed the writer to escape the past, but at a cost: nightmares haunted him. Here, he recounts how he escaped the terrifying stranger stalking his dreams
May 2017
Granta: Best of Young American Novelists 3 – review
Ben Lerner, Jen George and Mark Doten stand out in an impressive, largely avant-garde collection of stories
