America was a country dreamed up by religious fanatics and realized through violence. Philip Roth gave a name for this ‘blessed rage for purity’: the ‘indigenous American Berserk’.

Granta 176: American Berserk publishes today.

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What is India Literature Now? Granta and the Saxena Center at Brown University host a symposium on contemporary Indian literature, featuring contributors from Granta 173: India – beginning today!

This Thursday, Granta magazine and the Saxena Center at Brown University host a symposium on contemporary Indian literature, featuring contributors from Granta 173: India.

Event details: events.brown.edu/ccsa/event/341…

‘Friendship’s Death’ is Peter Wollen’s 1976 story of an extraterrestrial android stranded in Amman during Black September – later a film by Wollen starring Tilda Swinton. The film has a rare screening at the ICA in London tonight – read the story here: equator.org/articles/frien…

Look forward to joining this wonderful group of Indian writers at @BrownUniversity this Thursday.

This Thursday, Granta magazine and the Saxena Center at Brown University host a symposium on contemporary Indian literature, featuring contributors from Granta 173: India.

Event details: events.brown.edu/ccsa/event/341…

Join us to celebrate our issue on the American Berserk with a screening of 'Internal Affairs', Mike Figgis' American debut.

Following the screening, Figgis will be in conversation with @leorobsonwriter, contributing editor at the magazine. thegardencinema.co.uk/film/internal-…

“What is the American Berserk?... The American Berserk is characterized by world-historical excess. It is the mood of a country convinced of its chosenness but drenched in self-pity about that chosenness not working out.”
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Anne Carson, When Rhinestones Star the Night and You Find Yourself Thinking Fondly of Dave Hickey: granta.com/rhinestones-ca…

The Narcissus Complex Daisy Rockwell in Granta magazine
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almost here, @TheGardenCinema event with Mike Figgis about his first American film Internal Affairs, exciting, quite wild thriller. . . to mark @GrantaMag's superb American Berserk issue, out now
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Join us to celebrate our issue on the American Berserk with a screening of 'Internal Affairs', Mike Figgis' American debut.

Following the screening, Figgis will be in conversation with @leorobsonwriter, contributing editor at the magazine. thegardencinema.co.uk/film/internal-…

We congratulate Anne Carson, winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature. Carson is a contributing editor at Granta and a regular writer for the magazine. In celebration, we have lifted the paywall on all her contributions to our pages.

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‘I descend to confront – a visitor! After the jam? I think so. Or the gin.’

‘Visitors Rev. 4’ by Anne Carson. 

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‘Look, the / blessings should surprise you, not / the pain.’

A poem by Anne Carson for Granta 171: Dead Friends.

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To mark the @GrantaMag issue 'American Berserk,' @TheGardenCinema will be showing Mike Figgis's neo-noir crime thriller Internal Affairs, followed by a Q&A with the director, who also made Stormy Monday, Leaving Las Vegas, Time Code, and recently Megadoc:
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