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'Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to
notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally
indefensible'In equal measure famous and infamous, Janet Malcolm's
book charts the true story of a lawsuit between Jeffrey MacDonald,
a convicted murderer, and Joe McGinniss, the author of a book about
the crime. Lauded as one of the Modern Libraries "100 Best Works of
Nonfiction", The Journalist and the Murderer is fascinating and
controversial, a contemporary classic of reportage.
`Browning really comes back to life in the marvellous third volume
of the new Oxford Browning', wrote John Bayley, choosing it as one
of his Books of the Year for 1988. While Volume III included six of
the eight Bells and Pomegranates pamphlets, the present volume
completes the series and includes the most remarkable of all,
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics. Here we find `Pictor Ignotus', `The
Lost Leader', `The Bishop orders his Tomb', `The Laboratory', `The
Boy and the Angel', and the first part of `Saul'. Also included are
Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day and the essay on Shelley. As the Times
Literary Supplement reviewer of the earlier volumes commented,
`readers of a poet like this need all the help they can get; and
Jack and Smith have provided it in abundance.' Each poem is fully
annotated, and accompanied by a detailed introduction which
provides information on the chronology of composition and on
Browning's sources.
For a long time - too long - the mirror that India held to its face
was made elsewhere. 'What writer about the country would you
recommend I read?' first-time travellers to India would ask, and in
the late twentieth century the answer was still Forster or Naipaul
or even the long-dead Kipling. In fiction, that changed with
Rushdie. Now it has changed in all kinds of non-fiction. Narrative
history, reportage, memoir, biography, the travel account: all have
their gifted exponents in a country perfecting its own frank gaze.
In this special issue, Aman Sethi's 'Love Jihad' gives us insight
into the riots, religious fractiousness, mob mentality and
political manipulations that have come to define day-to-day life in
Uttar Pradesh; Samanth Subramanian investigates the legacy of
postcolonialism among Mumbai's elite at one of the city's oldest
exclusive clubs; Raghu Karnad reveals the secret and terrible
history of a great Delhi monument; Amitava Kumar brings us with him
into a richly detailed world of grief at his mother's funeral pyre
on the banks of the Ganges; and Sam Miller follows Gandhi's
footsteps through Victorian London. Photographer Gauri Gill and
artist Rajesh Vangad take a fresh look at an Indian village and
embellish its present with its past, and Katherine Boo introduces
the photographs that helped her write Behind the Beautiful
Forevers. Hari Kunzru imagines an Indian future where inequality is
taken to an all-too-imaginable extreme; the 'English Summer' of
1985 is brought to life in an excerpt from Amit Chaudhuri's
Odysseus Abroad; and Anjali Joseph invites us into the mind of an
ageing cobbler as he splices together the loose strands of his
memories. Granta 130: India features more fiction by Upamanyu
Chatterjee, Deepti Kapoor, Kalpana Narayanan, Vivek Shanbhag, Neel
Mukherjee; a story by one of India's finest - and unduly neglected
- prose writers, Arun Kolatkar; and poetry by Tishani Doshi, Anjum
Hasan, Vinod Kumar Shukla and Karthika Nair.
The sources for the history of medieval Wales are scanty, sporadic
and physically scattered. Neither in archival, narrative nor
archaeological remains is Wales comparable to England, and what
survives is less accessible, for there has been a notable
reluctance among Welsh scholars to produce guides and surveys for
this difficult corpus of material. The purpose of Medieval Wales is
to examine the history and survival of records produced by
administrations inside what is now Wales, princely, seigneurial,
ecclesiastical, municipal; to indicate the relevance of English
official records to students of Welsh history; to give an
introduction to the main narrative sources; to put the work of the
Welsh antiquaries into a wider context; to re-examine the whole
question of independent Welsh coinage; and to bring together
discussion of Welsh archaeological remains, place-name studies and
early cartography.
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This issue of "Granta reveals what the Africans themselves think
about their continent with its diverse cultures and classes among
its many nations. "Granta 92 includes new writing from such
literary superstars as J.M. Coetzee, Zakes Mda, Emmanuel Dongala,
and Tahar Ben Jelloun. It also includes a nonfiction piece by
Daniel Bergner about a former LAPD policeman who now works for the
United Nations training police in war-torn Liberia.
How far, and in what respects, is a poet's work influenced by the
kind of audience for which he writes? The question is crucial to
our understanding of how great poems came to be written, yet it has
rarely been addressed in a systematic study. In this fascinating
and illuminating book Ian Jack has chosen six major poets - Dryden,
Pope, Byron, Shelley, Tennyson, and Yeats - and has traced the
career of each to discover the nature and the extent of their
readers' influence on their poetry. He shows that poets living in
different periods and different cultural milieux addressed
themselves to very differently constituted audiences (though all
tended to have a close circle of highly sensitive friends on whom
they could first test their work in private), and indicates how
their need to adapt to the prevailing conditions shaped the nature
of their poetry.
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This book is intended for students of English literature at `A'
level and above; general readers interested in a complete history
of literature from Middle English to the earlier twentieth century.
This issue features new work by the twenty writers that Granta's
judges - including novelists Edmund White and A.M. Homes - have
selected as the most interesting new young voices in American
fiction. Granta began its influential "Best of Young..." series
with British novelists in 1983, repeated in 1993 and 2003. In 1996,
Granta's first "Best of Young American Novelists" included Jeffrey
Eugenides, Jonathan Franzen and Lorrie Moore. Who will match them
in the new generation?
Volume II contains Stafford, a play seldom reprinted, and Sordello,
a poem commonly, but mistakenly, neglected as "unintelligible." The
book looks at Browning's correspondence with Emily Hickey, the
first editor of Strafford, and important copies of Sordello that
help to shed light on Browning's attempts to revise the poem. Also
included are such of the juvenilia that survive.
Since its relaunch in 1979, "Granta" magazine has championed the
art and craft of reportage - journalism marked by vivid
description, a novelist's eye to form and eyewitness reporting that
reveals hidden truths about people and events that have shaped the
world we know. This updated edition of "The Granta Book of
Reportage" collects a dozen of the finest and most lasting pieces
Granta has published. Featuring distinguished writers and
reporters: John Simpson, James Fenton, Martha Gellhorn, Germaine
Greer, Ryszard Kapuscinski, John le Carre, as well as new talents
Elana Lappin, Suketu Mehta and Wendell Steavenson, the book covers
some of the signal events of our time: the fall of Saigon, the end
of apartheid in South Africa, the massacre in Tiananmen Square, and
the aftermath of the American invasion of Iraq.
Britain invented the factory - Manchester was the world's first
factory city. Where are they now? The anser, mainly, is China. An
issue devoted to how and where we made and make things, from
strawberries in the fields of Herefordshire to the car plants of
Korea.
"The Granta Book of India" brings together evocative, personal and
informative writings on modern India, drawn from the pages of the
world's leading literary magazine. Here are eighteen contemporary
voices sketching one of the world's most dynamic places in fiction,
reportage and memoir.
Contributors include Suketu Mehta, on Mumbai, a city "with an
identity crisis; " Chitrita Banerji, on "What Bengali Widows Cannot
Eat"; Pankaj Mishra, on the making of jihadis in Pakistan and
Afghanistan; and Rory Stewart, among the dervishes of Pakistan.
Ramachandra Guha and Amit Chaudhuri remember cowboys and Indians
and the dignity of American labor; Urvashi Butalia traces a family
member through the political geography of India's Partition. Hanif
Kureishi describes fundamentalist forces in Pakistani politics. And
Nirad Chaudhuri writes on his 100th birthday. The collection
includes a poem by Salman Rushdie about the fatwa, and fiction by
R.K. Narayan, Amit Chaudhuri, and Nell Freudenberger.
Love: as a temporary and permanent state of affairs; between
strangers; within families; the lack, the loss, and the need of it.
Including a newly discovered story by Raymond Carver, Ruth Gershon
on falling for the wrong man in Israel, Keith Fleming on being
rescued by his uncle Edmund White, and a photographic history of
eleven relationships by Daniel Meadows.
This is the first scholarly edition of Browning's greatest collection of short poems, Men & Women. A comprehensive introduction shows how new research has unearthed material which throws fresh light on the composition and dates of such famous pieces as `Fra Lippo Lippi', `Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came', and `One Word More: To E.B.B.'. This edition uses a critical text based on that of Browning's final collection, and has detailed introductions to the individual poems. It is the fifth volume in the highly praised Poetical Works of Robert Browning.
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This collection of essays features the theme of what people wanted
as children. The contributing writers include: Doris Lessing, Paul
Auster, Brian MacKinnon and Nell Stroud. There are also pieces by
George Steiner, J.M. Coetzee, Joyce Carol Oates, John Biguenet and
Peter Walker.
'Love is nothing without feeling. And feeling is still less without
love.'
Celebrated in its own day as the progenitor of 'a school of
sentimental writers', A Sentimental Journey (1768) has outlasted
its many imitators because of the humour and mischievous eroticism
that inform Mr Yorick's travels. Setting out to journey to France
and Italy he gets little further than Lyons but finds much to
appreciate, in contrast to contemporary travel writers whom Sterne
satirizes in the figures of Smelfungus and Mundungus. A master of
ambiguity and double entendre, Sterne is nevertheless as concerned
as his peers with exploring the nature of virtue; unlike other
writers of sentimental fiction Sterne insists on the inseparability
of desire and feeling.
This new edition includes a selection from The Sermons of Mr
Yorick, which shed light on the concerns of the Journey, The
Journal to Eliza, which records Sterne's feelings as he languishes
for the company of Eliza Draper, and A Political Romance, the
satire on a local ecclesiastical squabble that was the catalyst for
Sterne's literary career.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has
made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the
globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to
scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of
other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading
authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date
bibliographies for further study, and much more.
This volume contains six of the eight Bells and Pomegranates,
modestly-priced pamphlets published by Edward Moxon in a bid to
help Browning recover from the ridicule which greeted the first
appearance of Sordello. It includes Pippa Passes, four other
dramatic works, and Dramatic Lyrics, the first of the great
collections of short poems with which Browning established his
reputation. In addition, a version of a poem on the Pied Piper by
Browning's father is here printed for the first time. All
significant textual variants are recorded, and each of the Bells is
accompanied by an introduction and by full annotation. New
information throws further light on this most important period in
Browning's poetic career.
Volume I provides the first and final texts of Pauline carefully
annotated with emphasis on the literary background of the poem
rather than its supposedly authobiographical reference. It also
includes the manuscript of Paracelsus in the Forster Collection in
the Victoria and Albert Museum printed here for the first time.
Granta goes to the movies. Featuring John Fowles on the making of
'The French Lieutenant's Woman' and DM Thomas on the not-making of
'The White Hotel', Nik Cohn on his early involvement with the porn
industry, Thomas Keneally on finding Schindler's list, Roger Lewis
on Peter Sellers, Gaby Wood on Lana Turner, Pankaj Mishra in
Bombay, Ian Jack on the Roxy, the Rialto, the Ritz and the Regal,
Andrew O'Hagan on two years in the dark as a movie critic and
Maarten 'T Hart on coping with Werner Herzog and his ten thousand
rats. Plus Art by film directors: The drawings, storyboards and
photographs of Cocteau, Fellini, Hitchcock, Kubrick, Scorsese and
many more...And new fiction by Tessa Hadley and Jim Lewis and John
Boorman.
Granta magazine publishes the best of fiction, memoir, reportage
and photography, Every issue of Granta is in print and many issues
- such as 'Travel', 'Dirty Realism', 'The Family', 'India' and
'Unbelievable' - are classics. Granta only publishes work that has
never been published anywhere before. So anyone reading us would
have discovered (among others) Bill Bryson, Hanif Kureishi, Louis
de Bernieres, Arundhati Roy and Zadie Smith - long before anyone
else. Every issue of Granta is special. That's why it's published
four times a year - to keep it that way.
Over the past two decades India has produced a dazzling variety of
new writing in English. 'India Calling' showcases some of this
talent, Amit Chaudhuri and Arundhati Roy, alongside contributions
from long celebrated writers such as R.K. Narayan, V.S. Naipaul,
Nirad Chaudhuri and Ved Mehta.
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