Granta: The Magazine of New Writing Series

Book 92

Granta 92: The View from Africa

by Ian Jack

Published 2 January 2006

We know what Bob Geldof and Tony Blair think about Africa - as the continent that most needs salvation. But what do the people of Africa feel, in their diverse cultures and classes and nations?

This special issue of Granta features new fiction by five new African writers from across the continent, including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Segun Afolabi, Doreen Baingana, Helon Habila, and Moses Isegawa.

Plus John Ryle on whether Western aid is having any effect on the lives of Africans; Ivan Vladislavic on the perils and pleasures of Johannesburg; an account of the training the police in Liberia by Index on Censorship Book Award-winner Daniel Bergner; a conversation between Chinua Achebe and Caryl Phillips; and a picture essay about the ongoing plight of the Ogiek villagers of Kenya.

Granta 68

by Ian Jack

Published 1 February 2001

Granta 130

by Ian Jack

Published 29 January 2015

Granta 88

by Ian Jack

Published 1 January 2005

Edmund White on Delilah Mae White: 'What made her uncertain were the proper boundaries between children and adults, love and sex, work and play. What bewildered her were her own children.' John McGahern on Susan McGahern: 'My mother spoke to me of heaven as concretely and with as much love as she named the wild flowers. It was her prayer and fervent hope that we would all live there together in happiness with God for all eternity.' Major writers talk about the influence of mothers in this book.

Granta 84

by Ian Jack

Published 15 January 2004

Granta magazine's 71st issue, "What We Think of America", published in April 2002, 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? Do they know? Do they care? Reportage, fiction, opinion from outsiders in America, and Americans on themselves.

Granta 80

by Ian Jack

Published 9 January 2003

Everybody has been a reluctant or willing member of one: the family, the school, the football side, the quiz team, the once-faithful friends who met in a bar every Friday at five. Group photographs are their souvenir - frozen moments of a previous way of living, and of liking or disliking the people who shared it. In this issue of Granta magazine, writers take out their group photographs and evoke the sometimes uncomfortable times, places and people they used to know. It also includes new fiction and reportage from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Granta 83

by Ian Jack

Published 1 July 2003

Not so much the state we're in as the mess we're getting into. The world we were born into has gone. We shall never completely recapture its climate, its seasons, the way its plants grew and its animals lived. This is not a wild-eyed prediction, a man on the street with a placard. Respectable science knows it and says it. Nine of the world's ten warmest years since records were kept have occurred in the past fourteen years. Every month, an English garden moves south, climatically, by a distance of one hundred yards. Who is responsible? We are our habits. Can we prevent it? Too late. Can we moderate it, slow it, reverse it? Yes- if we try. This issue of "Granta" contains reports from the frontiers of environment change. Contributors include: Marion Botsford-Fraser; James Hamilton-Paterson; Matthew Hart; Thomas Keneally; Philip Marsden; Bill McKibben; Wayne McLennan; Christopher de Bellaigue; James Meek; and Nuha al-Radi in Iraq. There is new fiction from Maarten 't Hart and Jon McGregor, and a picture essay by Edward Burtynsky on our industrial landscapes.

Granta 87

by Ian Jack

Published 1 October 2004

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 76

by Ian Jack

Published 10 January 2002

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.

Granta 74

by Ian Jack

Published 3 July 2001

Granta magazine publishes the best of fiction, memoir, reportage and photography, Every issue of Granta is in print and many issues - such as 'Travel', 'Dirty Realism', 'The Family', 'India' and 'Unbelievable' - are classics. Granta only publishes work that has never been published anywhere before. So anyone reading us would have discovered (among others) Bill Bryson, Hanif Kureishi, Louis de Bernieres, Arundhati Roy and Zadie Smith - long before anyone else. Every issue of Granta is special. That's why it's published four times a year - to keep it that way.

Granta 78

by Ian Jack

Published 31 May 2002

A fiction special, introducing two new authors. Gary Shteyngart is not yet 30. His story, "Several Anecdotes About My Wife", is a funny and scurrilous account of a young Russian immigrant's disastrous marriage to a native New Yorker. Jon McGregor works as washer-up in a Nottingham restaurant. His story "Jonas" is a lyrical and disturbing account of a mysterious death in the Anglian fens. This edition also includes new short stories by Rachel Cusk, Edmund White and Jonathan Ley. Other features include: Arthur Miller remembers his life at the Chelsea Hotel, with Brendan Behan and Dylan Thomas; Rory Stewart among the dervishes in Pakistan; Aleksander Hemon's return to Sarajevo; and a photographic essay by Deirdra O'Callaghan on the lost souls of Camden Town.

Granta 90

by Ian Jack

Published 7 July 2005

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. Featuring Tim Adams goes on a fox hunt, Craig Taylor returns to Akenfield thirty-five years after Ronald Blythe's landmark book, and Jeff Sharlet finds out what's eating rural Coloradans. Plus Margaret Atwood, James Hamilton-Paterson, Barry Lopez, Orhan Pamuk and Tim Winton on the weather.

Granta 86

by Ian Jack

Published 1 July 2004

Granta goes to the movies. Featuring John Fowles on the making of 'The French Lieutenant's Woman' and DM Thomas on the not-making of 'The White Hotel', Nik Cohn on his early involvement with the porn industry, Thomas Keneally on finding Schindler's list, Roger Lewis on Peter Sellers, Gaby Wood on Lana Turner, Pankaj Mishra in Bombay, Ian Jack on the Roxy, the Rialto, the Ritz and the Regal, Andrew O'Hagan on two years in the dark as a movie critic and Maarten 'T Hart on coping with Werner Herzog and his ten thousand rats. Plus Art by film directors: The drawings, storyboards and photographs of Cocteau, Fellini, Hitchcock, Kubrick, Scorsese and many more...And new fiction by Tessa Hadley and Jim Lewis and John Boorman.

Granta 79

by Ian Jack

Published 26 September 2002

Granta 79 centres around celebrity, both good and bad: Jason Cowley: the search for Hitler's doctor Fintan O'Toole: an Irish republican looks at the Queen Kyle Stone: how Hillary Clinton's home views Hillary ('GO HOME BILLARY!') Riccardo Orizio: the cannibal emperor of the Central African Republic Andrew Martin: the roller-coaster champion of the world Dragisa Blanusa: eighty-nine days with Slobodan Milosevic NEW FICTION Geoff Dyer gets high in Amsterdam Andrew O'Hagan how a child star was born Zoe Heller gets lonely in North London PHOTOGRAPHY Tom Stoddart: the African evangelist who claims he can cure Aids Michael Collins: Mrs Haggarty meets George Best; Miss Barwell meets Steve McQueen

Granta 95

by Ian Jack

Published 2 October 2006

It can be hard to love the people we should love; sometimes objects of affection are easier. This issue includes Jonathan Taylor's frank and bitterly funny 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.

Granta 98

by Ian Jack

Published 2 July 2007

Struggling maybe, but waving not drowning. This issue of "Granta" contains writing from people whose experience of life suggests they have something to tell us about survival.This work features Diana Athill, Javier Cercas, Gerard Donovan, Richard Ford, James Hamilton-Paterson, Jackie Kay, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Helen Simpson, Paul Theroux, and a picture essay by Martin Parr.

Granta 85

by Ian Jack

Published 15 April 2004

Repressed personal experiences, neglected battles, forgotten civilizations: an issue of Granta that excavates the unfairly buried event, the secret life, the overlooked war. With Diana Athill on losing her baby, Giles Foden on the origins of 'The African Queen', Jennie Erdal on being a ghostwriter, Brian Cathcart on the very different life of another Brian Cathcart, Donovan Wylie's photographs of a northern Irish past, Geoffrey Beattie on growing up in Belfast, plus new fiction by Anne Enright.

Granta 89

by Ian Jack

Published 1 April 2005

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.

Granta 61

by Ian Jack

Published 3 April 1998

Granta 60

by Ian Jack

Published 5 January 1998