Author name: Tammy Montoya

The farm was in one of the fourteen green-purple wet deserts, in a dent six miles wide with its shoulders covered in scree and a rainy season that lasts twelve months a year. Always acid in the water, always vinegar in the ground. It’s a hanging land known for its lakes but we live in […]

First, a boy was meant to stop following him mama, then him papa, then at around fourteen him become him own man – that’s how Ras Levi say life was suppose to work. Anyway, because of him condition, Denton was always moving and fidgeting, always doing everything inna rush, so I figure it wasn’t important,

June 1946, Nantucket, Massachusetts Tennessee Williams is dying. He’s standing on a pier on Nantucket Island, eyeing the overcast sky, exhausted and beset with anxieties. The past few weeks have taken their toll on him. He’s never had ‘such a freakish run of bad luck’ in his life. His initial summer plans – a vacation

In July 1930, Sylvia Townsend Warner took an early train to Dorchester and a taxi to Chaldon to check on the progress of Miss Green, the small cottage she had bought earlier that year. Following the success of her first novel, Lolly Willowes, Sylvia had grown gloomy and restless in London. Weekends in the country

In this episode of the Granta Podcast, we speak to the poet and critic Declan Ryan. His debut collection of poems, Crisis Actor, was published in 2023. We discuss Declan Ryan’s essay ‘The Hurt Business’, published in Granta 170: Winners, the fight between Anthony Joshua and Daniel Dubois, and the commercialisation of boxing. Follow these

It’s not whether you win or lose, it’s how you play the game. Any schoolchild can smell the rat in the adage. The great thing about sports, we are told, is that they teach the virtues of comradeship, perseverance, humility, respect for rules – ‘sportsmanship’. But everybody knows a game is not worth watching unless

The day didn’t start well. I was going to be evicted for non-payment of rent and I had a fight with my girlfriend. I said Why don’t you put the lids back on jars properly so they don’t come off when I pick them up? She said You think you’re so political but it’s all