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Granta 2: The Portage to San Christobal of A.H.

In this issue, a novella by George Steiner, short stories by John Barth, Robert Coover, Walter Abish and others, essays on contemporary fiction and poetry.

‘There is much at the heart of this novella with which I should take issue. But questions on a large human scale are being asked, and if these are not very English questions for a novelist to be asking, then so much the worse for us.’ Elaine Feinstein, the Times.

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In this issue

Tony Tanner: A Preface to A.H.
George Steiner: The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H.
Jeremy Lane: B-ABEL
Richard Godden: Two Poems
D. A. Miller: Language of Detective Fiction...
Peter Robinson: Four Poems
Robert Coover: Lucky Pierre and the Coldwater Flat
David Black: Nostalgia
M. J. Fitzgerald: Bachelor Life
Walter Abish: Sweet Truth
David Katz: The Wife
Norman Bryson: City of Dis: The Fiction of Don DeLillo
Robert Boyers: The Weightless Characters of William Styron
Heide Ziegler: An Interview with John Barth
John Barth: Letters from LETTERS
D. D. Guttenplan: On the Death of Elizabeth Bishop
Jerome Klinkowitz and Thomas Remington: Science Fiction to Superfiction