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Britain invented the factory - Manchester was the world's first factory city. Where are they now? The anser, mainly, is China. An issue devoted to how and where we made and make things, from strawberries in the fields of Herefordshire to the car plants of Korea.
Featuring John Fowles on the making of The French Lieutenant's Woman and DM Thomas on the not making of The White Hotel, Thomas Keneally on finding Schindler's list, Roger Lewis on Peter Sellers, Gaby Wood on Lana Turner, Pakaj Mishra in Bombay, Ian Jack on the Roxy, the Rialto, the Ritz and the Regal, and much much more.
Contains: Richard Ford interviewed by Tim Adams: the aftermath of Dirty Realism; Owen Sheers on the consequences of Christmas Island's nuclear past; Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on the death of her high-school sweetheart; and Katya Krausova on the survivors of the Slovakian Holocaust.
Looks at the nature of love: it can be hard to love the people we should love; sometimes objects of affection are easier. This issue includes an account of a boyhood spent caring for a father with Parkinson's Disease ('Who are you?'), Jeremy Seabrook on the twin brother he hardly knew, and Sean Wilsey on his devotion to bicycles.
Contains dispatches from the world of conflict, in the battlefield and in the home, including: James Buchan on Iran's nuclear weapons programme; Jasmina Tesanovic on the death squads of Serbia; Hugh Raffles on cricket-fighting in Shanghai; and fiction by Tahmima Anam and Edmund White.
In this issue, writers from across the world describe how America has affected them - culturally, politically, economically, as citizens, as writers, as children and as adults, for better or worse.
This issue of "Granta" celebrates Australian writing and examines a country which is forging a strong new identity. The contributors include Peter Carey, Thomas Keneally, Les Murray and Tim Winton. There are picture essays by Polly Borland and David Moore, and a novella by Ben Rice.
Not so much the state we're in as the mess we're getting into. Reports and stories from the frontiers of climate change and environmental (and human) catastrophe.
Contains writing from people whose experience of life suggests they have something to tell us about survival.
Features the work by the twenty writers that Granta's judges - including novelists Edmund White and AM Homes - have selected as the most interesting young voices in American fiction.
Features articles by: Tim Parks, on the joys of commuting from Verona to Milan every day; Christopher de Bellaigue, on tracking down the Armenians in Turkey; Jeremy Treglown, following in the footsteps of V. S. Pritchett in Spain; Jeremy Seabrook, on being separated from his twin; and, Todd McEwen, on Cary Grant's trousers.
The author of the celebrated and widely-acclaimed The Smoking Diaries, returns to print, with a tender, affecting, and of course funny account of his friendship with Alan Bates, written as he waits in Barbados for Harold Pinter to turn up.
Country Life: how it is lived, how it has changed, and how the changes are far from over. An issue that ranges from English fox- hunters to the rice-planters of the Ganges delta.
Collection & anthologies of various literacy from John MCGahern on his mother's struggle for health & happiness in Catholic Ireland, Alexander Fuller on bearing a child in Africa, Ryszard Kapuscinski on his memories of the Second World War plus writings from Edmund White, Paul Theroux, Jim Lewis and others.
A celebration of Granta's first quarter century with new writing from the writers who made its reputation, including Martin Amis, Paul Auster, William Boyd, Amit Chaudhul, Richard Ford, James Hamilton-Paterson, Jan Morris, Blake Morrison, Jayne Anne Phillips, Paul Theroux and Edmund White.
Granta magazine's 71st issue, "What We Think of America", was a prescient reflection of the USA's deepening political unpopularity among people outside its own borders. But what do Americans themselves think of their country's new imperialism - and of the world it rules?
Everybody has been a reluctant or willing member of one: the family, the school, the football side, the quiz team. Group photographs are their souvenir. In this issue of "Granta", writers take out their group photographs and evoke the times, places and people they used to know.
This edition centres around celebrity, both good and bad. Contributions include: the search for Hitler's doctor; an Irish republican looks at the Queen Kyle Stone; how Hillary Clinton's home views Hillary; and the cannibal emperor of the Central African Republic.
This edition is a fiction special and includes new short stories by Rachel Cusk, Edmund White and Jonathan Ley.
Granta Magazine publishes the best of fiction, memoir, reportage and photography, only using work that has never been published before. Contributions include: Nik Cohn on "Bounce in New Orleans"; "Dr Feelgood" by Hugo Williams; Ian Jack on Kathleen Ferrier; and "Frank Sinatra" by Richard Williams.
In 1996 Benjamin Wilkomirski published his powerful account of a childhood spent in Hitler's death-camps. But was it true? Is the truth that he was a Swiss boy with an over-developed imagination, making his book a shocking fraud? In a long investigation Elena Lappin has examined the evidence against him.
Repressed personal experiences, neglected battles, forgotten civilisations: an issue of Granta that excavates the unfairly buried event, the secret life, the overlooked.
Britain's most prestigious literary magazine brings you prize-winning fiction, memoir, reportage, poetry and photography from around the world.From Nobel laureates to debut novelists, international translations to investigative journalism, each issue of Granta turns the attention of the world's best writers on to one aspect of the way we live now.
The issue of Granta that defined a new school of American writers: Richard Ford, Jayne Anne Phillips, Raymond Carver, Elizabeth Tallent, Tobias Wolff, Bobbie Ann Mason, Frederic Barthelme, Carolyn Forché and others.
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