The Big Stories

Tired of reading about Obama and McCain? Fed up with endless coverage of Washington and Westminster, Iraq and Iran, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan, David Beckham and David Miliband and David Cameron and David Petraeus? Can’t stand to read another article about our ill economy and failing foreign policy?

Courtesy of the Granta archive, some entirely different stories to discuss.

Granta 78: Rory Stewart on Pakistani dervishes.

Granta 80: Geoff Dyer on London in the mid-1980s, when the dole was king.

Granta 80: Marcos Villatoros on growing up Catholic in Tennessee.

Granta 72: Ved Mehta on falling in love (again) with the wrong woman.

Granta 73: Decca Aitkenhead on the pursuit of cheap sex and drugs in Thailand.

Granta 84: Paul Theroux on his stint as a sexual prisoner in Africa.