Sex

Mark Doty unforgettably remembers his early marriage and the awakening sexuality of the affair it engendered; Jeanette Winterson concocts a wickedly irreverent modern myth; James Lord, Robert Bolaño, Tom McCarthy, and Jennifer Egan are among the rest of the contributors to Granta's -- dare I say it -- orgy of good writing on the subject of sex.

May 22: The video game Pac-Man, featuring "the most iconic character from the golden age of arcade video games," was released on this day in 1980. Over the next decade, gamers spent over $2.5 billion in quarters…

Ethan Rutherford and Matt Burgess (Dogfight: A Love Story) on the writing of Rutherford's surreal and fiercely funny story collection The Peripatetic Coffin

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