Granta 85: Hidden Histories

Granta: The Magazine of New Writing #85

by Granta: The Magazine of New Writing, Ian Jack (Editor), Orhan Pamuk (Contributor)

Repressed personal experiences, neglected battles, forgotten civilizations are offered in Granta 85—an issue that excavates the unfairly buried event, the secret life, the overlooked war. With Diana Athill on losing her baby, Amit Chaudhuri on the Indian tailor who became the face of a riot, Giles Foden on the origins of "The African Queen," plus new fiction by T. C. Boyle and Anne Enright.

Genres: Anthologies, Literature, Fiction

255 pages, Paperback

First published April 15, 2004

About the author

Granta magazine was founded in 1889 by students at Cambridge University as The Granta, a periodical of student politics, student badinage and student literary enterprise, named after the river that runs through the town. In this original incarnation it had a long and distinguished history, publishing the early work of many writers who later became well known, including A. A. Milne, Michael Frayn, Stevie Smith, Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. During the 1970s, it ran into trouble – dwindling money, mounting apathy – from which it was rescued by a small group of postgraduates who successfully and surprisingly relaunched it as a magazine of new writing, with both writers and their audience drawn from the world beyond Cambridge.

Reviews

[Chris · Rating 3 out of 5]

Brian Cathcart's 'The Lives of Brian' was the best thing in this issue.

[Thom · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fantastic writing from all over the world. Sad, funny, and always sharp. This is one of the strongest issues in the journal's past few years.

[Bopha · Rating 3 out of 5]

great read. History from the bottom up. Histories without academic dead weights. Histories with humour and intellegence.

[Ruth · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the best Granta collections I've read.