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A short story from one of Granta’s New Voices
Tag: Short stories
The Troubled Man
An extract from The Troubled Man, Henning Mankell's last Wallander novel
Neil Gaiman: the Prospect interview
The cult author discusses his new anthology, the art of the short story, the future of the author, what went wrong in the 1980s, and why life is always going to be stranger than fiction
Two-step
New short fiction
The Not-Dead and the Saved
Read the remarkable short story that has now won both the BBC National Short Story and VS Pritchett awards, as first published in Prospect
Living arrangements
A new short story.
Cursed by comfort
The latest generation of American authors are hobbled by ease and self-congratulation
Franco-British Council Short Story Prize 1
Last month saw the Prospect/Franco-British Council prize for a short story inspired by France. The top three entries in the undergraduate category are below
Door in your eye
Neighbourhood watch
Fungi
After Tess died, Adam started to hate her family. Almost as much as he hated his own ability to cope
The Ghost
Since my father died, something has been wrong with my son. At least, I hope it's something wrong with him
Desert storms
The prophet Muhammad's love life is a sensitive subject. But was the book Random House decided not to publish worth all the fuss?
Crossing Martyrs Bridge
The world is full of killers, schemers and liars. But I know what I did
Shadow of candles flickering red
Music helped Chen Wei to survive the cultural revolution. But it also brought him an unexpected lesson in desire
Hell is other people
Zöe Heller's first two novels won her a reputation as a leading chronicler of middle-class viciousness. Her latest is equally acerbic but also introduces a subtler and more satisfying note of compassion
The second person
You know what I'm like. I know what you're like. But we can't say it right
The sweet pain of betrayal
Howard Jacobson's early works show him to be a master of comic complaint and morbid eroticism. But his latest novel is a departure for more complex, compromised territory—and a sobering lesson in the interconnectedness of fidelity, love and fury
An artist of the abstract world
Janna Levin's first novel is a compelling fictionalisation of the lives of two great scientists. But her gift lies not so much in bringing science to life as in showing how life itself fuels great science
Love and honour and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice…
I haven't seen my father in three years. But with my writer's block and looming deadline, he's come to visit at the worst possible time
Migration fiction moves on
The last half century has seen long-distance migration shift from an exceptional to a normal aspect of global life. As Eva Hoffman's latest novel shows, this new migration is a realm of more subtle traumas and dislocations than the old,…