Granta 115: The F Word
From Ghana to Great Britain, New Delhi to New York, the balance of power remains tipped towards men. Granta 115: The F Word explores the ways in which feminism continues to inform, address and complicate that balance.
'Naddy Photomaton (My grandmother)' ©Clarisse d’Arcimoles
IN THE PRINT ISSUE
Fiction
Edwidge Danticat Hot-Air Balloons
Lydia Davis The Dreadful Mucamas
Louise Erdrich The Ojibwe Week
Maja Hrgović Zlatka
Julie Otsuka The Children
Taiye Selasi The Sex Lives of African Girls
Helen Simpson Night Thoughts
Jeanette Winterson All I Know About Gertrude Stein
Memoir/Non-fiction
Laura Bell A Kept Woman
Urvashi Butalia Mona’s Story
A.S. Byatt No Grls Alod. Insept Mom.
Rachel Cusk Aftermath
Janice Galloway We’re Not in This Together
Caroline Moorehead A Train in Winter
Francine Prose Other Women
Eudora Welty Gentlemen
Poetry
Gillian Allnutt Coronation
Linda Gregerson Ariadne in Triumph
Sadaf Halai Inheritance
Selima Hill Black Against the Sky, the Giant Mothers
Plus ‘Un-Possible Retour’, a photo essay by Clarisse d’Arcimoles, with an introduction by Téa Obreht
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Essays
–Rebecca Swift recalls generations of feminism in her family
– Lana Asfour investigates feminism in Tunisia's new democracy
– Elizabeth Bishop and sacrificial feminism: a look at the poet and all-female poetry anthologies.
– Sevil Delin shares marriage lessons from a Turkish grandmother
– Rachel Genn, Hannah Gersen and Tess Lynchon their feminist bibles
– Helen Dunmore’s introduction to a new edition of Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse
Poetry
– ‘The Old Fuel’: a new poem by Emily Berry, and an interview with her.
– ‘I’m More the Drunken Slut Kind of Feminist’ by Megan Levad.
– ‘Accidental’ by Sadaf Halai
– Parisa Ebrahimi on the female confessional legacy.
– ‘Fortunate It Is If Her Skirts Do Not Catch Fire’ by Amy Gerstler.
– ‘The Easel’ by Sharon Olds.
Multimedia
– Four Women, One Revolution: Award-winning documentary film makers Micah Garen and Marie-Helene Carleton profile women of the Egyption revolution.
– The latest Granta podcasts: ‘Writing Women’ featuring Sigrid Rausing, Rachel Cusk and Taiye Selasi, and a dramatic reading Lydia Davis’s ‘The Dreadful Mucamas’.
Design
– Michael Salu on this issue’s cover and on art for the F Word
– Three specially comissioned videos inspired by stories in the F-Word: Marie-Margaux Tsakiri-Scanatovits responds to Helen Simpson’s ‘Night Thoughts’; Kris Hofman to Rachel Cusk’s essay ‘Aftermath’, and Em Cooper to Maja Hrgović’s ‘Zlatka’.
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& free to read from the print edition...
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Mona’s Story
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All I Know About Gertrude Stein
New fiction
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Coronation
Poem
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Aftermath
Memoir
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Inheritance
Poem
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No Grls Alod. Insept Mom.*
Memoir
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Black Against the Sky, the Giant Mothers
Poem
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The Children
Fiction
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We're Not in This Together
Memoir
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A Train in Winter
Memoir
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A Kept Woman
Memoir
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Night Thoughts
Fiction
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Hot-Air Balloons
Fiction
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Gentlemen
Memoir
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The Ojibwe Week
Fiction
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Other Women
Memoir
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The Sex Lives of African Girls
Fiction
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Zlatka
Fiction