Granta
Americannoun
noun
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“If the unconscious is structured like a language, the design of a therapist’s consulting room is also a language,” Deborah Levy writes in a recent Granta essay.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026
Adapted from Adrift in the South, by Xiao Hai, translated by Tony Hao, to be published by Granta on May 26, 2026.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026
She was named by Granta as one of Britain's best British novelists under 40 earlier this year.
From BBC • Nov. 25, 2023
Matt Weiland, an editor at Granta, reached out to him and suggested turning the email into an essay for its new “Africa” issue.
From New York Times • May 29, 2023
The latter was called, by the English, the Granta, and the former was accordingly known only as Granta-ceaster—the chester, or ruined Roman city, upon the Granta.
From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Conybeare, Edward
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