All Issues
Every issue of Granta is still in print. Please enjoy browsing through thirty-one years of the best new writing below. The uploading of the archive is now complete – where publishers’ and agents’ policies permit it, we have reproduced an author’s work. All pieces have a print template – if you prefer to read articles and stories printed out, just click ‘Print’ in your browser, or ‘Print preview’ to see how it will look.
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Granta 32: History
An issue of stories, about the ways in which we make sense of the past. Contributors include Gore Vidal, Simon Schama, Julian Barnes, Richard Holmes, Allan Gurganus, plus Jonathan Raban and Martha Gellhorn.
Published: Summer 1990
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Granta 31: The General
Nobody has ever got through to the ‘General’ – General Alfredo Stroessner – who, until he was deposed in 1989, was one of the world’s longest reigning dictators. Nobody, that is, until Isabel Hilton, following the suggestions of the General’s former mistresses, tracked him down in his hiding place in Brazil. Plus: Salman Rushdie, Richard Ford, Jonathan Raban, Gabriel García Márquez, Christopher Hitchens, and Margaret Atwood.
Published: Spring 1990
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Granta 30: New Europe!
The year 1989, annus mirabilis, was the most important year in Europe since the end of World War Two. After 1989, Europe changed irreversibly, for better or worse. This special issue of Granta focuses on this crucial moment and projects itself into the possible future outcomes.
Published: Spring 1990
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Granta 29: New World
Is it possible, by travelling to a new world, to become a new person? Jonathan Raban crossed the Atlantic by ship and, like the immigrants before him, made for America in search of a new language, a new name, a new identity. Plus: Rian Malan, Roger Garfitt, Josef Skvorecky, Paul Theroux, Patricia Highsmith, Tim O’Brien, and Patrick McGrath’s ‘A Boy’s Broadmoor’.
Published: Winter 1989
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Granta 28: Birthday Special
A mad editorial tea-party celebrating Granta’s first ten years: John Simpson, Salman Rushdie, Ian Jack, Ryszard Kapuscinski, Nadine Gordimer, Jeanette Winterson, Richard Rayner, George Steiner, Walter Abish, William Boyd, Russell Hoban, Eugene Richards, Joy Williams, Leonard Michaels, Jay McInerney, John Updike, Peregrine Hodson, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Colin Thubron.
Published: Autumn 1989
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Granta 27: Death
A story becomes a story once it has an ending, and there is no ending more powerful than death. But what of death itself? Here, fourteen writers and photographers set out to look at it: John Gregory Dunne, Adam Mars-Jones, Mary McCarthy, Edmund White, Louise Erdrich, Michael Ignatieff, John Treherne, and eerie death faces by photographer Rudolph Schäfer.
Published: Summer 1989
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Granta 26: Travel
This travel issue is dedicated to the memory of Bruce Chatwin with four unpublished pieces by one of the world’s greatest travel writers. Also in this issue: Ryszard Kapuscinski, John Ryle, Colin Thubron and Timothy Garton Ash, Bill Bryson and Amitav Ghosh.
Published: Spring 1989
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Granta 25: The Murderee
Martin Amis’s tale of Nicola Six, a girl who’s been trouble all her life. Plus: ‘Gibraltar’, Ian Jack’s award-winning investigation into the Death on the Rock, Raymond Carver, Tess Gallagher, Todd McEwen, John Berger, Angela Carter, and Don DeLillo.
Published: Autumn 1988
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Granta 24: Inside Intelligence
In 1946, at the age of twenty, Anthony Cavendish infiltrated a ring of arms traders run by ex-Nazi immigrants in Palestine. In 194-, he was was made the -------- officer of ----, the British ------- ------ -----. In 194-, he personally oversaw the illegal invasion of ------- that resulted in the deaths of ----------- of --------------. In 19--, in ------, Cavendish was personally responsible for monitoring -------- --------. What did Cavendish finally see that we are not allowed to know now – over forty years later? Plus: Philip Roth, Peter Carey, Tobias Wolff, Bruce Chatwin, E.L. Doctorow, and Jay McInerney.
Published: Summer 1988
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Granta 23: Home
Prague, Beirut, Des Moines, Derry, and the ugliest village in Essex. What is home for an Arab in Israel? Or for an exile returning to the Iowa county fair? Plus: Nicholas Shakespeare in Peru in search of the leader of the Shining Path, Abimael Guzman, and Ian Hamilton in pursuit of J.D. Salinger.
Published: Spring 1988
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