‘Well-intentioned recommendations of psychoanalysts rain down upon me, but when I confess to my aversion to therapy, the responses range from rejection to pity.’
‘The circumstances could have been better but it was good to be back. He could practically taste the grip of the thick-necked men, rosy and reliably avuncular in their attempts to make him come.’
‘Psychoanalysis never truly took root in Albania during the early decades of the twentieth century and, after the communist takeover in 1944, it was actively suppressed by the regime.’ Ardian Vehbiu on Jacques Lacan’s visit to Albania.
‘Norén’s writing was always a work in progress – there is a feeling both in the plays and in his diaries of perpetual renewal held fast by recurring themes.’
‘We stand face-to-face, and rather close. He smells of wool. Ever since then I can’t help connecting the two things; the smell of wool and what he says.’ Six short stories by Helle Helle, translated by Martin Aitken.
'Intelligence and consciousness are two very different things.' Olga Ravn on technology, its relationship with humanity, and Tove Ditlevsen's influence.
There are two “Grantas” in the life of the thinking man or woman. There is Granta, the leading literary journal in the Anglophone world, which published the early William Empson, and is now helmed by
