Granta: 152 books

Cover of The New Granta Book of Travel
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Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011

Granta has long been known for the quality of its travel writing. The 1980s were the culmination of a golden age, when writers including Paul Theroux and Bruce Chatwin, James Hamilton-Paterson and James Fenton set out to document life in largely unfamiliar territory, bringing back tales of the beautiful,...
Cover of Granta 124

Granta 124

Travel

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Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013

Hari Kunzru travels to Chernobyl, Detroit and Japan to investigate the phenomenon of disaster tourism. Policeman-turned-detective-turned-writer A Yi describes life as a provincial gumshoe in China. Physician Siddhartha Mukherjee visits a government hospital in New Delhi, where he meets Madha Sengupta,...
Cover of Granta 120: Medicine
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Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012

Clinicians have spent centuries perfecting the art of tending broken bodies. What happens when their medicine fails us? Where do we turn for healing of the body and the mind? In this wide-ranging collection of essays, memoir, poetry and photography, Granta magazine explores the mind of the physician,...
Cover of The Granta Book of the African Short Story
by Helon Habila
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011

The Granta Book of the African Short Story introduces a group of African writers described by its editor, Helon Habila, as ‘the post-nationalist generation’. Presenting a diverse and dazzling collection from all over the continent - from Morocco to Zimbabwe, Uganda to Kenya - Habila has focused...
Cover of Granta 123

Granta 123

Best of Young British Novelists 4

by John Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013

Barker, Barnes, Hollinghurst, Ishiguro, Mitchell, Rushdie, Smith, Tremain, Winterson . . . Long before they were household names, they were Granta Best of Young British Novelists. With each Young Novelist list - in 1983, 1993, and 2003 - came new ways of witnessing the world, introductions to unforgettable...
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Granta 7

The Best Of Young British Novelists 1

by William Boyd
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013

Martin Amis, Kazuo Ishiguro, Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan and Julian Barnes were relatively unknown names in literature when Granta published its first Best of Young British Novelists list in 1983. They did not remain unknown for long. These writers -- along with Pat Barker, Rose Tremain, A.N. Wilson...
Cover of Granta 135

Granta 135

New Irish Writing

by Sigrid Rausing
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016

Granta 135 is a snapshot of contemporary Ireland, which shows where one of the world's most distinguished and independent literary traditions is today. Here international stars rub shoulders with a new generation of talent from a country which keeps producing exceptional writers. This issue...
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Granta 131

The Map Is Not the Territory

by Sigrid Rausing
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015

This issue of Granta is about the difference between the world as we see it and the world as it actually is, beyond our faulty memories and tired understanding. It's also about the borderlands of politics and reason, and of reality and transcendence, in contested territories. Ludmila Ulitskaya's...
Cover of Granta 122: Betrayal
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Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013

In a world of the future, people exist in a perpetual state of rehearsing evacuations, and one man's rehearsal involves leaving his parents behind. A firespotter knows all too well that where there's smoke, there's fire - but fails to spot the blaze that consumes half her family. Then there's the...
Cover of Granta 43

Granta 43

Best of Young British Novelists 2

by Bill Buford
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013

Ten years after the success of the 1983 Best of Young British Novelists issue, four judges -- A.S. Byatt, Salman Rushdie, bookseller John Mitchinson and Granta editor Bill Buford -- set out to identify twenty more young and promising writers. The list introduced astonishing emerging talents: Alan...
Cover of Granta 126

Granta 126

do you remember

by Sigrid Rausing
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014

We are what we remember, and even when we invent, we write what we remember. Every line is a fragment of something else; that is the great collective project that we call culture. In this issue of Granta, writers remember, or invent, scenes from their own lives and the lives of others. Ann...
Cover of Granta 130

Granta 130

India: Another Way of Seeing

by Ian Jack
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015

For a long time - too long - the mirror that India held to its face was made elsewhere. 'What writer about the country would you recommend I read?' first-time travellers to India would ask, and in the late twentieth century the answer was still Forster or Naipaul or even the long-dead Kipling. In...
Cover of Granta 136

Granta 136

Legacies of Love

by Sigrid Rausing
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016

What happens after you fall in love? The essays and fiction in this issue of Granta look at the risk and reward of loving someone. 'Whatever Happened to Interracial Love' by the late African-American filmmaker Kathleen Collins, captures the atmosphere of the Civil Rights movement in New York...
Cover of Granta 145

Granta 145

Ghosts

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Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018

This issue of Granta is about time and about ghosts - the ghosts of our past selves, the shadows of past injuries, the ghosts of history, the ghosts in the machine. André Aciman remembers Rome Ahmet Altan on his life sentence Bernard Cooper on Ambien and sleep-eating Maggie O'Farrell on damaging...
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