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 12: The Rolling Stones
Stanely Booth was meant to be the authorised biographer of the Rolling Stones, but, shortly after he began writing in 1968, things started to go wrong. The American concert tour that he joined ended in murder at a race track in the Californian desert, and the time that followed - in which Booth was assaulted by Hell's Angels, beaten up by American soldiers, run over by a lorry, imprisoned, and subjected to epileptic fits while trying to withdraw from drugs - was characterised only be confusion, loss and disillusionment. Completed fifteen years after it was begun, 'The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones' is only in part about the group of musicians it depicts. It is also a social history a
Published: Spring 1984
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Granta 11: Greetings from Prague
‘In November 1956, the director of the Hungarian News Agency, shortly before his office was flattened by artillery fire, sent a telex to the entire world with a desperate message announcing that the Russian attack against Budapest had begun. The dispatch ended with these words: “We are going to die for Hungary and for Europe.” What did this sentence mean?’ Milan Kundera, ‘A Kidnapped West’.
Published: Spring 1984
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Granta 10: Travel Writing
One of the most popular issues of Granta, now in its fifth printing. Including Jonathan Raban, James Fenton, Colin Thubron, Martha Gellhorn, Bruce Chatwin, Norman Lewis, Saul Bellow, Jan Morris, Paul Theroux, Redmond O'Hanlon, and others
Published: Winter 1983
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Granta 9: John Berger, Boris
Boris: a story of love and pain and self-destruction. Also a chronicle of an obsession with political and historical implications that extend far beyond its seemingly straightforward, spartan narrative. Plus Gabriel García Marquez on ‘The Solitude of Latin America’, with Mario Vargas Llosa and José Donoso
Published: Autumn 1983
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Granta 8: Dirty Realism
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.
Published: Summer 1983
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Granta 7: Best of Young British Novelists
Who were the best young British novelists ten years ago? And who among them have emerged as the important writers of today? This classic issue of Granta (reprinted six times) collects new fiction from the twenty writers, judged in 1983, to be the best of their generation.
Published: Spring 1983
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Granta 6: A Literature for Politics
This special, double issue of Granta is organized to fill a gap, a felt emptiness in current literary achievement. At a time when it is imperative that we have a literature and a language that are responsible, accountable and instrumental to the lives of we are having to lead – a literature that is an adversary of oppression and not an accomplice to it – we have instead a writing that is remarkable only for its dubious feats of technical virtuosity, its relentless self-referentiality and its deliberate retreat from experience. Granta 6 is dedicated to a different set of possibilities – the possibilities of political engagement.
Published: Winter 1982
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Granta 5: The Modern Common Wind
The theme of this issue is the habitability of the earth, and it is in this context, not in the context of the direct slaughter of hundreds of millions of people by the local effects of nuclear weapons, that the question of human survival arises. Includes essays and fiction by Susan Sontag, Russell Hoban, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Leonard Michaels and Jonathan Schell
Published: Spring 1982
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Granta 4: Beyond the Crisis
In this issue, arguments for the future of publishing by Brigid Brophy, John Sutherland, David Caute, Blake Morrison, Per Gedin, David Godine and Walter Abish. Also, fiction from Martin Amis, Guy Davenport, Nicole Ward Jouve, Kenneth Bernard and Raymond Carver. Plus, an essay on realism and sexuality by Mario Vargas Llosa.
Published: Spring 1981
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Granta 3: The End of the English Novel
Is it the end of the English novel? Has it grown predictable and unadventurous? Granta 3 collects work from writers and critics which points to the fact that our terms have grown inadequate: it is the end of the English novel; but it is also the beginning – quite possibly an extremely important beginning – of British fiction.
Published: Spring 1980
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