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‘Colm had moved on – moved backwards, really, back into the groove dug for him by Sarah. That is marriage, he thinks now: the comfort of the groove.’ Fiction by Ana Kinsella. https://t.co/WPQwtybr2V
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‘He told Sarah the truth about Jo. He told her a version of it. He left out the sex but kept in the texts, the first drunken kiss. He said he shouldn’t ask for her forgiveness but that he wanted to...
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‘What’s the most fuxked up thing that’s ever happen to you?’ Jorge asked me. We were at Aarón’s birthday party, out on the living room balcony. It had just turned four in the morning. @GrantaMag The House on El Estero Fernanda Melchor https://t.co/6hKMZDkl8X
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‘The girl vomited with rage as Jorge recited the prayer. She struggled and squirmed, kicked and spat.’ A story by Fernanda Melchor, translated by Sophie Hughes.
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Mina Naguib: ‘requires surgery for washout +/- removal of metal work. This was planned but cancelled due to hospital destruction.’ In a decade as a doctor, with several stints overseas in humanitarian medicine, I have never written such words before.
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‘There is no medical training for this, no papers to help guide me.’ Mina Naguib on the hard lessons of medical care in Gaza.
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‘Bagging and tagging / plastic table latches / for aeroplane seats / my hands are each its twin’ Three poems from the factory floor by Matthew Rice. https://t.co/CIWFc2D8TO
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‘Bagging and tagging / plastic table latches / for aeroplane seats / my hands are each its twin’ Three poems from the plastic moulding factory by Matthew Rice.
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From the archive, 2015: fiction by Guadalupe Nettel, translated by Rahul Bery. ‘I’m sure these details, important to me, are totally irrelevant to whoever’s reading this fucking diary.’ https://t.co/qfwEHTlhb6
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‘To see our own flaws reflected in the person we share our lives with is an unbearable experience.’ New writing by Guadalupe Nettel. Translated by Rahul Bery.
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From the archive, 2022: fiction by Ben Pester. ‘We have this space and we have permission to summon each other into it. Sibspace.’ https://t.co/9Kxl5CQH5e
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‘We have this space and we have permission to summon each other into it. Sibspace.’ Fiction by Ben Pester.
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‘He was not always attracted to her anymore, but he was attracted to her in this moment, and there was something noble about this, generous – he was about to let someone else have her.’ Fiction by Erin Somers. https://t.co/57TFSbneye
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‘Her body looked good in that sumptuous way. He was not always attracted to her anymore, but he was attracted to her in this moment, and there was something noble about this, generous – he was about...
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‘Ramadan starts at the beginning of March in Gaza, but it’s a different March and a different Ramadan to everyone else’s.’ A diary entry by Nahil Mohana from March 2025 in Gaza, translated by Katharine Halls. https://t.co/IB2TX1GTFK
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‘Ramadan starts at the beginning of March in Gaza, but it’s a different March and a different Ramadan to everyone else’s.’ Nahil Mohana on March 2025 in Gaza, translated by Katharine Halls.
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Hoy es domingo de Menudo, y este quizá sea mi cuento favorito de Raymond Carver. ❤️🔥 https://t.co/HnuZiS3BgE
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‘Vicky says I’m crazy. She said worse things too last night. But who could blame her?’
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‘Gideon and Phoebe stuck a list of emergency contacts to the fridge, gave their sitter the usual spiel about bedtime, beseeched their kids to please, for God’s sake be good, and left to go have sex with the neighbors.’ Fiction by Erin Somers. https://t.co/57TFSbneye
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‘Her body looked good in that sumptuous way. He was not always attracted to her anymore, but he was attracted to her in this moment, and there was something noble about this, generous – he was about...
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‘She turned to look at me, and, knowing I was being looked at, I smiled at her.’ Two unnamed women in a story by Cristina Rivera Garza, translated by Sarah Booker. https://t.co/0t2sGt2Pch
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Translated from the Spanish by Sarah Booker.
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‘There is no medical training for this, no papers to help guide me.’ Mina Naguib on the hard lessons of medical care in Gaza. https://t.co/gpE6BpcJMT
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‘There is no medical training for this, no papers to help guide me.’ Mina Naguib on the hard lessons of medical care in Gaza.
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From the archive, 1991: a short play by Harold Pinter. ‘Here he is, here he is sitting here, and he hasn’t the faintest idea of what we might do to him.’ https://t.co/phxznVE36p
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‘He has little idea of what we’re about to do to his wife.’ Harold Pinter in Granta 37: The Family
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From the archive, 1990: Svetlana Alexievich on the USSR and Afghanistan. ‘I was trying to present a history of feelings, not the history of the war itself.’ https://t.co/5L6r6V72b3
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‘I was trying to present a history of feelings, not the history of the war itself.’ Svetlana Alexievich on the USSR and Afghanistan for Granta 34.
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‘There is no medical training for this, no papers to help guide me.’ Mina Naguib on the hard lessons of medical care in Gaza. https://t.co/gpE6BpcJMT
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‘There is no medical training for this, no papers to help guide me.’ Mina Naguib on the hard lessons of medical care in Gaza.
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‘I note that my brother – he’ll deny it but he was always the moody one – has apparently refused to take Granny’s hand.’ Andrew Miller reflects on three family photographs. https://t.co/AOWBq0b5qj
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‘I note that my brother – he’ll deny it but he was always the moody one – has apparently refused to take Granny’s hand.’ Andrew Miller reflects on three family photographs.
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‘As a good investor, she could compare patterns and connect links that others might overlook. And now, in the matter with her daughters, she was applying the same skills she brought to her investments.’ Fiction by Adachioma Ezeano. https://t.co/juJJjiteYZ
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‘As a good investor, she could compare patterns and connect links that others might overlook. And now, in the matter with her daughters, she was applying the same skills she brought to her investme...
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‘We’re awoken at 2 a.m., around an hour before suhur, by the sound of rockets and explosions. The ceasefire had been violated.’ Nahil Mohana on March 2025 in Gaza, translated by Katharine Halls. https://t.co/IB2TX1Hrvi
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‘Ramadan starts at the beginning of March in Gaza, but it’s a different March and a different Ramadan to everyone else’s.’ Nahil Mohana on March 2025 in Gaza, translated by Katharine Halls.
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