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Granta 52: Food: The Vital Stuff

Food as indulgence, certainly, but also food as a taboo, a cruelty, a desperate need, a failed sex aid, and a means of making a living. Including Graham Swift on the life and death of a butcher, J. M. Coetzee’s attempt at vegetarianism in Texas, Giles Foden at Idi Amin’s dinner table, and Sean French on the delights of Icelandic cuisine (including roast puffin and whale sushi). Plus: Georges Perec, Romesh Gunesekera, John Lanchester, Jane Rogers, Margaret Visser and Joan Smith.
Published: Winter 1995
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Granta 51: Big Men (and L.A. Women)

Big as in substantial, powerful, famous; men as in weak, wicked, and notorious. Gitta Sereny on Albert Speer, the tyrant as survivor; Caroline Alexander on the classical tyrant, Hastings Banda; Andrea Ashworth on the tyrant in the next room, her stepfather. Blake Morrison considers failing manhood, John Sweeney investigates the myth and mystery of Hitler’s missing testicle, and Douglas Brooker photographs the young – some may say strange – women of L.A.
Published: Autumn 1995
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Granta 50: Fifty

In 1985, Granta published James Fenton’s extraordinary account of the fall of Saigon. Twenty years after the first tank entered the city, Philip Gourevitch, Tran Vu, Paul Eggers, and Bao Ninh examine the aftermath of that terrible war. Also: work from some of our finest contributors – Redmond O’Hanlon, Norman Lewis, Germaine Greer, Timothy Garton Ash, Julian Barnes, and more.
Published: Summer 1995
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Granta 49: Money

Get it, spend it. Save it, lose it. Risk it, win it. Lose it again, get it again. What is money? With Richard Rayner on becoming a thief; Steve Pyke’s portraits of the very rich; Jonathan Raban on the consequences of dreaming in America, and James Buchan on the psychology of money. Plus: short stories by Seamus Deane and John McGahern.
Published: Winter 1994
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Granta 48: Africa

Twelve writers describe the profound changes this continent is undergoing. With Lynda Schuster in Liberia as Doe falls, Gilles Peress in Rwanda after the massacres, Paul Theroux at a leper colony in Malawi, Sousa Jamba in Angola, Ryszard Kapuscinski and Abraham Verghese in Ethiopia, William Finnegan in South Africa, and William Boyd’s enchanting novella of an African filmmaker made good.
Published: Autumn 1994
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Granta 47: Losers

A hymn to unmitigated public humiliation. With Martin Amis on a writer who can’t write; Julian Barnes on a champion who can’t win; Neil Steinberg on the stress of the National Spelling Bee; Beverly Lowry on two boys who killed their daddy; Jean Hatzfwld with dispatches from the Yugoslav war (photos by Gilles Peress); Jayne Anne Phillips and Bret Easton Ellis, and more.
Published: Spring 1994
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Granta 46: Crime

An issue devoted to criminal behavior, a testimony to deviance. James Ellroy on the dark, sexed-up world of L.A. in the 50’s; Allan Gurganus on necrophilia; the stories of two murderers – told by the murderers themselves; Paul Auster, Italo Calvino, and Tibor Fischer.
Published: Winter 1993
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Granta 45: Gazza Agonistes

Ian Hamilton’s story of soccer superstar Paul Gascoigne: at play, on show, in the press, in pain, in distress. This is a fan’s account of a player’s life and of a fan’s obsession, of a sports celebrity and of our apparent need to have one. Also in this issue: Jonathan Raban on the flooded Mississippi, Timothy Garton Ash with Erich Honecker.
Published: Autumn 1993
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Granta 44: The Last Place on Earth

When the time comes – our appointment, our dark hour – what thoughts will we have? Tracy Kidder’s fable-like account of old age; Mary Karr on her terrifying Grandma Moore; and the first publication of Bruce Chatwin’s notebooks. Plus: Paul Auster, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Ivan Klìma, and Tobias Wolff.
Published: Summer 1993
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Granta 43: Best of Young British Novelists

Granta 43 celebrates a new generation of twenty of the best new British writers. Selected by Salman Rushdie, A. S. Byatt, John Mitchinson and Bill Buford.
Published: Spring 1993
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