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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 42: Krauts!
What is the new Germany? ‘Krauts!’ seeks the uncomfortable answer to this simple question. With Günter Grass on neo-Nazis, Hans Magnus Enzensberger on the new European – the immigrant, Ian Buruma on Buchenwald, and Martha Gellhorn on why she’ll never return to Germany.
Published: Winter 1992
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Granta 41: Biography
Is it merely a form of gossip (the affairs, the drinking, the public rows) or does it satisfy an important curiosity? Saul Bellow (on his father), James Atlas (on Saul Bellow), Gabriel García Márquez (on the mysterious Frau Frida), Lorna Sage, Louise Erdrich, Andrew Motion, and Luc Sante.
Published: Autumn 1992
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Granta 40: The Womanizer
Richard Ford’s womanizer is an insistently ordinary man — until he goes abroad. Paul Theroux’s ‘imaginary’ young American novelist loses his self-control in London. William T. Vollmann, alone in the wilderness with Erica, risks losing his life for her. Plus: Nadine Gordimer, André Brink, and Richard Rayner.
Published: Summer 1992
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Granta 39: The Body
Is it us or is it nothing more than the container of what we really are? With: Abraham Verghese, Jeanette Winterson, Michael Dibdin, Geoffrey Biddle, Todd McEwen, Hanif Kureishi, Giorgio Pressburger, Anchee Min, Antonin Kratochvil, John Conroy, Peregrine Hodson, and Victoria Tokareva. Plus: fiction by Salman Rushdie and Redmond O’Hanlon in the Congo.
Published: Spring 1992
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Granta 38: We’re So Happy!
Featuring the fictional début of Bill Morris, set in the design department of General Motors, between New Year’s Day and New Year’s Eve 1954: the year (Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, Dwight Eisenhower, and Edgar Hoover) when America changed. Plus: Ivan Klìma, Tracy Kidder, Eugene Richards, Louise Erdrich, Adam Mars-Jones, and Sue Halpern.
Published: Winter 1991
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Granta 37: The Family
The controversial issue about the most important, powerful, and potentially destructive relationship of our lives. Contributors include Mikal Gilmore on his brother Gary, the murderer; Sappho Durrell on her father, the novelist. Plus: William Wharton, Geoffrey Wolff, Seamus Deane, Mona Simpson, Harold Pinter, and Giorgio Pressburger.
Published: Autumn 1991
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Granta 36: Vargas Llosa for President
The novelist’s personal account of his campaign for the presidency of Peru. Plus: Alvaro Vargas Llosa as his father’s press officer, Sergio Ramirez on the end of the Sandinistas, George Steiner on the end of the dream of communism, Graham Swift, T. Coraghessan Boyle, and Martin Amis’s Time’s Arrow (part three).
Published: Summer 1991
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Granta 35: The Unbearable Peace
John le Carré’s story about the Swiss, money, and democracy and about our own unbearable peace. Plus: Max Frisch, Friedrich D’Urrenmatt, John Berger, Jayne Anne Phillips, Nadine Gordimer, Patrick Süskind, and Allan Gurganus.
Published: Spring 1991
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Granta 34: Death of a Harvard Man
Simon Schama sets out to discover which story, if any story, is the story of the many stories of the disappearance of Doctor George Parkman, the perfect Yankee. Plus: William Boyd, Geoffrey Wolff, Louise Erdrich, Don DeLillo, Amitav Ghosh, and Martin Amis’s Time’s Arrow (part two).
Published: Autumn 1990
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Granta 33: What Went Wrong?
The first chilling account of the darker side of Europe’s Revolution of 1989. William McPherson in Romania during the brutal six months ‘after’ communism. Plus: Victoria Tokareva, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Isabel Allende, Christa Wolf, Ryszard Kapuscinski, and Martin Amis’s Time’s Arrow (part one).
Published: Summer 1990
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