Selected issues of Granta
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Granta 101
Granta 101 features incisive reportage and investigative journalism alongside new fiction and a photo essay from the Arctic. Andrew Hussey reports from the troubled Parisian suburbs; Tim Lott explores the brutal murder of his agent; Xan Rice travels to Angola in search of a missing father and son. Plus a new opening section, short stories from Annie Proulx, Rick Moody and Joshua Ferris, a new column by Douglas Coupland and poetry from Robin Robertson.
Published: Spring 2008
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Granta 100
This celebratory 100th issue, guest-edited by novelist William Boyd, features contributions from many of Granta’s most distinguished contributors, including Martin Amis, Doris Lessing, Harold Pinter, Mario Vargas Llosa, Jayne Anne Phillips and Ian McEwan.
Published: Winter 2007
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Granta 99: What Happened Next
This issue of Granta is about storytelling – the stories we invent, the stories we tell about other people and the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of our lives. Featuring an exclusive interview with Richard Ford and a photo essay from Joel Sternfield.
Published: Autumn 2007
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Granta 98: The Deep End
This issue of Granta is by people, and about people, whose experience of life suggests they have something to tell us about survival, including work from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Paul Theroux and Diana Athill.
Published: Summer 2007
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Granta 97: Best of Young American Novelists 2 (2007)
Granta selects the ‘Best of Young American Novelists’, including Gary Shteyngart, Nicole Krauss, Anthony Doerr and Yiyun Li.
Published: Spring 2007
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Granta 96: War Zones
Wars change their nature, but states and people continue to pursue the ancient aims of conquest, security, justice and revenge. This issue includes fiction by David Peace and Elif Shafak and non-fiction from A.M. Homes, Brian Thompson and James Buchan.
Published: Winter 2006
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Granta 95: Loved Ones
In this issue of Granta, writers consider their relationships with those who were, or should have been, close to them. Jeremy Seabrook on being estranged from a twin; Melanie McFadyean on the houses in her life; and fiction from David Malouf and Jim Shepard.
Published: Autumn 2006
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Granta 94: On the Road Again
Where travel writing went next with fiction from Michel Faber and Tessa Hadley, Tim Parks on commuting in Italy and James Hamilton-Paterson on the end of travel.
Published: Summer 2006
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Granta 93: God’s Own Countries
This issue of Granta explores the varieties of religious belief and their personal, social and political effects, in fiction and non-fiction. Pieces feature a conversation with Orhan Pamuk and John McGahern, Nadeem Aslam and Simon Gray on their own religious encounters.
Published: Spring 2006
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Granta 92: The View from Africa
Fresh voices from Africa, in all their differences, as well as memoir and reportage that reflect the past and present of its people. Featuring Binyavanga Wainaina on how to write about Africa and work by Segun Afolabi, Kwame Dawes and Nadine Gordimer.
Published: Winter 2005