Granta Goes Back to School

With a new pencil case, a well-stocked lunch box and a shiny apple for the teacher, Granta prepares for the new term and looks back over some academic highlights.

Granta 79 ‘What Sheba did Wrong’ by Zoë Heller: woman teacher in sex-with-pupil shock

Granta 82 ‘The Tutor’ by Nell Freudenberger: reading science-fiction in Bombay

Granta 87 ‘Early One Morning’ by Helen Simpson: life explained on the school run

Granta 92 ‘The War of the Ears’ by Moses Isegawa: the headmistress versus the rebel soldiers

Granta 95 ‘Mao Comes to Sydney’ by Georgia Blain: kissing and revolution in the classroom

Granta 97 ‘The Answer’ by Jess Row: fundamentalism on campus

Granta 99 ‘Operation’ by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: remembering a school friend