Granta 87: Jubilee
This special edition of Granta celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary with a rich collection of new pieces by some of the writers who helped make its reputation, and by others who may do so in the future.
In this issue
Ian Jack: Motley Notes
Tim Adams: Benjamin Pell versus the Rest of the World
Martin Amis: Northanger Abbey
James Hamilton-Paterson: Bang!
Helen Simpson: Early One Morning
Jan Morris: Perchance to pick one’s nose
Philip Gourevitch: Never Againism
V. S. Pritchett: A New World
Toby Glanville: Granta, the river
William Boyd: The View from Yves Hill
Pankaj Mishra: Aspirers
Paul Auster: The Brooklyn Follies
Wendell Steavenson: Osama’s War
J. Robert Lennon: Ecstasy
Isabel Hilton: The Enduring General
Amit Chaudhuri: The Tailor of Gujarat
Blake Morrison: When I last saw him
Patricia Hampl: Pilgrim
Graham Swift: Making an Elephant
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Benjamin Pell versus the Rest of the World
Why shredders are a sound idea
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The Enduring General
Ex-president Stroessner is still alive
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Early One Morning
Fiction