Granta

Why Granta dedicated an entire issue to Canadian writing

The British literary journal’s all-Canadian issue—of essays, reportage and fiction—may well prove as eye-opening at home as it will to Granta’s international readership

“The Rememberer,” a short story by Johanna Skibsrud

When scientists discover a young girl has an exceptional memory, she is forced to be a back-up information drive, saddled with over 200,000 years of human knowledge. But is the load too heavy?

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How e-mail rots your brain

John Freeman, the author of The Tyranny of E-Mail on why “any email correspondence is always a few exchanges away from a fight”