Granta 87: Jubilee

Granta: The Magazine of New Writing #87

by Ian Jack (Editor)

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 future.



MARTIN AMIS rewrites Jane Austen for a film of Northanger Abbey
AMIT CHAUDHURI meets the troubled icon of secular India
PHILIP GOUREVITCH asks why we commemorate genocide
JAN MORRIS picks her nose and wonders what death will be like
WENDELL STEAVENSON gets to know an Iraqi terrorist
GRAHAM SWIFT remembers his father



TIM ADAMS learns why shredders are a good idea
JAMES HAMILTON-PATERSON reveals his boyhood as a champion bomb-maker
PATRICIA HAMPL sees the wrong picture snapped in Palestine
ISABEL HILTON discovers that General Stroessner, ex-dictator of Paraguay, is still alive
PANKAJ MISHRA finds out what it takes to make it in Bollywood
BLAKE MORRISON examines the afterlife of his family memoir



New fiction from PAUL AUSTER, WILLIAM BOYD, J. ROBERT LENNON
and HELEN SIMPSON, and a newly-discovered story by one of England's finest short story writers, V.S. PRITCHETT.

And a picture essay by TOBY GLANVILLE, tracing the course of the river that gave the magazine its name

Genres: Short Stories, Literature, Anthologies, Fiction, Essays

316 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2004

About the author

Ian Jack is a British journalist and writer who has edited the Independent on Sunday and the literary magazine Granta and now writes regularly for The Guardian.

Reviews

[Craven · Rating 3 out of 5]

OK, you know those Granta journals that look like books and are based on themes like "loss" or "apatite" or whatever, that are totally ubiquitous on any house bookshelf or garage sale or whatever? The ones you always look at and go, "that looks kind of interesting," but never actually read? Well, while traveling (and you might know how it goes) and thus picking up whatever came my way, I ended up stuck with one of these. So now you know some porknob who's actually read one, and yes, it was quite interesting.