Granta: 152 books

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Granta 128

American Wild

by Sigrid Rausing
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014

American Wild also features new writing by Martin Amis, Anne Carson, Diane Cook, Thomas McGuane, Jess Row, Mona Simpson and Callan Wink, poetry by Andrew Motion and Mary Ruefle and photography by Aaron Huey and Nicola Lo Calzo.
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Granta 134

No Man's Land

by Sigrid Rausing
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016

Who collects the bodies of the soldiers who die in the endless conflict in Afghanistan? What do children make of war, or the mental illness of their siblings? Did you ever consider the meaning of divorce in Chile, or informants in Ceausescu's Romania? Our fiction in this issue, by Azam Ahmed, George...
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Granta 117

Horror

by John Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011

The Horror issue features original cover artwork by Jake and Dinos Chapman and a line-up of contributors that includes some of the greatest names in contemporary fiction. Stephen King tells the story of a retired judge with a deadly secret. Don DeLillo imagines a moviegoer-turned-stalker and Paul...
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Granta 132

Possession

by Sigrid Rausing
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2015

In this issue, Oliver Bullough travels to Ukraine and Crimea in the wake of revolution; Kerry Howley writes about cage fighting and giving birth in Texas; Molly Brodak remembers her father, a compulsive gambler and failed bank robber; and Bella Pollen describes being visited - repeatedly - by an incubus....
Cover of Granta 133

Granta 133

What Have We Done

by Sigrid Rausing
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015

In this issue, acclaimed nature writer Barry Lopez meditates on language and seeing; Australian writer Rebecca Giggs witnesses the monumental death of a stranded whale; science writer Fred Pearce describes the Herculean effort to keep nuclear Sellafield safe; Kathleen Jamie travels to the Alaskan...
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Granta 125

After the War

by John Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013

How long is the shadow of a battle, an explosion, a revolution? What stories arise in the wake of devastation? This issue explores the complicated aftermath and legacy of conflict. Lindsey Hilsum returns to Rwanda two decades after witnessing the beginning of genocide. Patrick French writes of a great-uncle...
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Granta 141

Canada

by Madeleine Thien
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017

From Canada's global cities to its Arctic Circle - from the country's ongoing story of civil rights movements to languages under pressure - the writers in this issue upend the ways we imagine land, reconciliation, truth and belonging, revealing the histories of a nation's future. Margaret Atwood,...
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by Sigrid Rausing
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016

We call ourselves the Fellowship, or sometimes the Church of God, but the world knew us as the Plymouth Brethren - Ken Follett These Mennonite colonies are self-policed, except in cases of murder. The bishop and the elders came up with a solution to the problem of how to punish the offenders:...
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Granta 144

Generic Love Story

by Sigrid Rausing
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2018

An issue on gender and power Devorah Baum reads Grace Paley to find out what women want Stella Duffy looks for LGBT voices in the #MeToo debate Fernanda Eberstadt remembers the 70s drag scene in New York Debra Gwartney breaks her silence Ottessa Moshfegh gets what she wants TaraShea Nesbit...
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Granta 146

The Politics of Feeling

by Devorah Baum, Josh Appignanesi
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2019

Guest-edited by Devorah Baum and Josh Appignanesi We're living through hysterical times. Rage, resentment, shame, guilt and paranoia are everywhere surfacing, as is the intemperate adoration or hatred of popular but divisive public figures. Political discourse suffers when people seem to trust...
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Granta 148

Summer Fiction

by Sigrid Rausing
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2019

New fiction from: Haruki Murakami Ben Lerner Amor Towles David Means Julia Armfield Te-Ping Chen Magogodi OaMphela Makhene Sara Majka Thomas Pierce Adam O'Fallon Price Jem Calder Plus poetry from Nuar Alsadir, and a photoessay on transhumanism by Matthieu Gafsou with an introduction by Daisy Hildyard
Cover of Yesterday Morning: A Very English Childhood
by Diana Athill
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011

A remarkable, truthful and vivid recollection of childhood, from the author of Stet, After a Funeral, Don't Look at Me Like That and Instead of a Letter. Here Athill goes back to the beginning in a sharp evocation of a childhood unfashionably filled with happiness - a Norfolk country house, servants,...
Cover of Desperately Seeking Paradise: Journeys Of A Sceptical Muslim
by Ziauddin Sardar
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012

Ziauddin Sardar, one of the foremost Muslim intellectuals in Britain, learned the Koran at his mother's knee in Pakistan. As a young student in London he set out to grasp the meaning of his religion, and, hopefully, to find 'paradise', his quest leading him throughout the Muslim world, from Iran to...
Cover of All The Devils Are Here
by David Seabrook
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014

Twenty years ago, in a series of mysterious, incandescent writings, David Seabrook told of the places he knew best: the declining resort towns of the Kent coast. The pieces were no advert for the local tourist board. Here, the ghosts of murderers and mad artists crawl the streets. Septuagenarian rent...
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