Essays

• Ohne Mich: Why I Shall Never Return To Germany

  Granta 42: Krauts!

  • Martha Gellhorn
• On Buying a Clavichord

  Granta 100

  One of the softest sounds in Western music

  • James Fenton
• Once Upon a Time the Zhou Brothers

  Granta 108: Chicago

  • Bei Dao
• One Day I Will Write About This Place

  Granta 114: Aliens

  • Binyavanga Wainaina
• Pathologies

  Granta 102: The New Nature Writing

  A startling tour of our bodies

  • Kathleen Jamie
• Pop Idols

  Granta 112: Pakistan

  The Zia years and ‘Dil Dil Pakistan’

  • Kamila Shamsie
• Science

  Granta 102: The New Nature Writing

  When the world turns ugly

  • Jim Holt
• Second Nature

  Granta 102: The New Nature Writing

  The de-landscaping of the American west

  • Jonathan Raban
• Soaked

  Granta 108: Chicago

  • Richard Powers
• Subject+Object

  Granta 102: The New Nature Writing

  The whisper of love

  • Seamus Heaney