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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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
In this selection from over twenty years of reporting and writing,
Ian Jack sets out to deal with contemporary Britain - from national
disasters to football matches to obesity - but is always drawn back
in time, vexed by the question of what came first. In 'Women and
Children First', watching the film Titanic leads into an
investigation into the legend of Wallace Henry Hartley, the famous
band leader of the doomed liner, while 'The 12.10 to Leeds', a
magnificent report on the Hatfield rail crash, begins its hunt for
clues in the eighteenth century in the search for those
responsible. Further afield, he finds vestiges of a vanished
Britain in the Indian subcontinent, meeting characters like
maverick English missionary and linguist William Carey, credited
with importing India's first steam engine. Full of the style,
knowledge and intimacy that makes his work so special, this
collection is the perfect introduction to the work of one of the
country's finest writers.
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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.
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?
Struggling maybe, but waving not drowning. This issue of "Granta"
contains writing from people whose experience of life suggests they
have something to tell us about survival.This work features Diana
Athill, Javier Cercas, Gerard Donovan, Richard Ford, James
Hamilton-Paterson, Jackie Kay, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Helen
Simpson, Paul Theroux, and a picture essay by Martin Parr.
"On The Road Again: Where travel writing went next..." features Tim
Parks, on the joys of commuting from Verona to Milan every day;
Christopher de Bellaigue, on tracking down the Armenians in Turkey;
Jeremy Treglown, following in the footsteps of V. S. Pritchett in
Spain; Jeremy Seabrook, on being separated from his twin; and, Todd
McEwen, on Cary Grant's trousers. It also contains new fiction by
Ann Beattie, Tessa Hadley and Claire Keegan.
LAST GASPS Thoughts about Alan while waiting for Harold, by Simon
Gray The author of the celebrated and widely-acclaimed The Smoking
Diaries returns to print with a tender, affecting, and of course
funny account of his friendship with Alan Bates, written as he
waits in Barbados for Harold Pinter to turn up. PLUS: Said
Sayrafiezadeh on the perils of having a socialist for a father
Simon Garfield on his obsession with faulty postage stamps Wayne
McLennan on the Australian outback's last boxing nomads. And
Margaret Atwood, James Hamilton-Paterson, James Lasdun, Orhan
Pamuk, Maarten 't Hart and Tim Winton on our changing weather. With
new fiction by Frederic Tuten and Gllad Evron.
Country Life: how it is lived, how it has changed, and how the
changes are far from over. An issue that ranges from English
fox-hunters to the rice-planters of the Ganges delta. Featuring Tim
Adams goes on a fox hunt, Craig Taylor returns to Akenfield
thirty-five years after Ronald Blythe's landmark book, and Jeff
Sharlet finds out what's eating rural Coloradans. Plus Margaret
Atwood, James Hamilton-Paterson, Barry Lopez, Orhan Pamuk and Tim
Winton on the weather.
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.
Edmund White on Delilah Mae White: 'What made her uncertain were
the proper boundaries between children and adults, love and sex,
work and play. What bewildered her were her own children.' John
McGahern on Susan McGahern: 'My mother spoke to me of heaven as
concretely and with as much love as she named the wild flowers. It
was her prayer and fervent hope that we would all live there
together in happiness with God for all eternity.' Major writers
talk about the influence of mothers in this book.
Not so much the state we're in as the mess we're getting into. The
world we were born into has gone. We shall never completely
recapture its climate, its seasons, the way its plants grew and its
animals lived. This is not a wild-eyed prediction, a man on the
street with a placard. Respectable science knows it and says it.
Nine of the world's ten warmest years since records were kept have
occurred in the past fourteen years. Every month, an English garden
moves south, climatically, by a distance of one hundred yards. Who
is responsible? We are our habits. Can we prevent it? Too late. Can
we moderate it, slow it, reverse it? Yes- if we try. This issue of
"Granta" contains reports from the frontiers of environment change.
Contributors include: Marion Botsford-Fraser; James
Hamilton-Paterson; Matthew Hart; Thomas Keneally; Philip Marsden;
Bill McKibben; Wayne McLennan; Christopher de Bellaigue; James
Meek; and Nuha al-Radi in Iraq. There is new fiction from Maarten
't Hart and Jon McGregor, and a picture essay by Edward Burtynsky
on our industrial landscapes.
Everybody has been a reluctant or willing member of one: the
family, the school, the football side, the quiz team, the
once-faithful friends who met in a bar every Friday at five. Group
photographs are their souvenir - frozen moments of a previous way
of living, and of liking or disliking the people who shared it. In
this issue of Granta magazine, writers take out their group
photographs and evoke the sometimes uncomfortable times, places and
people they used to know. It also includes new fiction and
reportage from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Granta 79 centres around celebrity, both good and bad: Jason
Cowley: the search for Hitler's doctor Fintan O'Toole: an Irish
republican looks at the Queen Kyle Stone: how Hillary Clinton's
home views Hillary ('GO HOME BILLARY!') Riccardo Orizio: the
cannibal emperor of the Central African Republic Andrew Martin: the
roller-coaster champion of the world Dragisa Blanusa: eighty-nine
days with Slobodan Milosevic NEW FICTION Geoff Dyer gets high in
Amsterdam Andrew O'Hagan how a child star was born Zoe Heller gets
lonely in North London PHOTOGRAPHY Tom Stoddart: the African
evangelist who claims he can cure Aids Michael Collins: Mrs
Haggarty meets George Best; Miss Barwell meets Steve McQueen
A fiction special, introducing two new authors. Gary Shteyngart is
not yet 30. His story, "Several Anecdotes About My Wife", is a
funny and scurrilous account of a young Russian immigrant's
disastrous marriage to a native New Yorker. Jon McGregor works as
washer-up in a Nottingham restaurant. His story "Jonas" is a
lyrical and disturbing account of a mysterious death in the Anglian
fens. This edition also includes new short stories by Rachel Cusk,
Edmund White and Jonathan Ley. Other features include: Arthur
Miller remembers his life at the Chelsea Hotel, with Brendan Behan
and Dylan Thomas; Rory Stewart among the dervishes in Pakistan;
Aleksander Hemon's return to Sarajevo; and a photographic essay by
Deirdra O'Callaghan on the lost souls of Camden Town.
The events of September 11 were terrible; their consequences might
prove to be more so. But out of them has arisen what might be
called the "but" sentiment, as in "It was terrible...but the
Americans were asking for it/deserved it/should have expected it".
You didn't have to be on the West Bank or in Kabul to hear it. The
same thought was there in British and European newspapers, in the
country pubs of Kent, in the bars of Barcelona and Frankfurt. An
undertow of feeling was suddenly exposed: anti-Americanism. Is the
US really so disliked? If so, why?;Granta asked 20 distinguished
writers across the world to describe how America has affected them
- culturally, politically, economically, as citizens, as writers,
as children and as adults, for better or worse.
How do you cope with the great, if you yourself are not so great?
Do you speak, do you listen, in the face of every difficulty do you
try to please? The sensible thing to do is keep a diary. Irish poet
Richard Murphy remembers his experiences with Auden, J.R. Ackerley
and Theodore Roethke.
The year 2000 is Australia's year, including the Sydney Olympics in
September, and the 100th anniversary of its nationhood three months
later. This issue of "Granta" celebrates Australian writing and
examines a country which is forging a strong new identity. The
contributors include Peter Carey, Thomas Keneally, Les Murray, Tim
Winton, Frank Moorhouse, Howard Jacobson, Robyn Davidson, Murray
Bail, Paul Toohey, Georgia Blain and Peter Conrad. There are
picture essays by Polly Borland and David Moore, and an Australian
novella by English writer Ben Rice.
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