Granta 35

Granta: The Magazine of New Writing #35

by Bill Buford (Editor)

Granta is a leading literary magazine and publisher in the United Kingdom. Initially founded in 1889 by students at Cambridge University as The Granta, it was successfully relaunched as a magazine of "new writing" in 1979. Granta is a literary quarterly with a distinctive mix of fiction, personal history, reportage, and documentary photography.

256 pages, Paperback

Published January 7, 2008

About the author

William Holmes Buford is an American author and journalist. He is the author of the books Among the Thugs and Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany. Buford was previously the fiction editor for The New Yorker, where he is still on staff. For sixteen years, he was the editor of Granta, which he relaunched in 1979. He is also credited with coining the term "dirty realism".

Reviews

[Michael Macdonald]

Grants is an exceptional literary magazine, producing high quality work whilst accepting risk. This edition had stood the test of time, focussing on the contradictions of a stable democratic but conformist Switzerland. Le Carre's short story about a Swiss spy is a classic and Nadine Gourdnier subverts a classically liberal tale in another highlight. Running through the takes is a sense of loss of stability with the fall of the Berlin Wall as it is easier to mourn what is lost rather than concentrate on the opportunities that change brings. Intellectually robust and challenging.