Publications
Ian Jack on Granta.com
|The Online Edition
|The Online Edition
Those Who Felt Differently
Ian Jack
‘Could grief for one woman have caused all this? We were told so.’
|Granta 138
|Granta 138
Ian Jack | Is Travel Writing Dead?
Ian Jack
‘Travel writing of most kinds, not just the humorous, has the history of colonialism perched on its shoulder.’
|Granta 130
|Granta 130
Motley Notes
Ian Jack
‘We showed 'the spirit of London', the same spirit of our citizen forebears during their bombing by the Luftwaff.’
|Granta 130
|Granta 130
The Deep End: Introduction
Ian Jack
‘Granta needs good readers as well as good writers.’
|Granta 130
|Granta 130
War Zones: Introduction
Ian Jack
‘Feelings of hate and despair dwindle as they pass down the generations.’
|Granta 130
|Granta 130
|Granta 130
Motley Notes
Ian Jack
‘The last issue of Granta celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary and retraced a little of its pre-1979 history as a magazine for and by the students of Cambridge University.’
|Granta 130
|Granta 130
|Granta 130
The Best Picture He Ever Saw
Ian Jack
‘Always and everywhere, this unequal struggle to preserve and remember.’
|Granta 130
|Granta 130
What We Think of America
Ian Jack
‘…a fully-fledged, award-winning, gold-plated monster…it knows only one language—bombs and death’ —Harold Pinter ‘…the only...
|Granta 130
|Granta 130
|Granta 130
The 12.10 To Leeds
Ian Jack
‘'What's the train saying?' our fathers would say. 'Peas-and-beans, peas-and-beans, peas-and-beans?’
|Granta 130
|Granta 130
Leonardo’s Grave
Ian Jack
‘James Cameron's film had not yet appeared, but a great human tragedy was unfolding on our living-room carpet.‘
|Granta 130
|Granta 130
India! The Golden Jubilee: Introduction
Ian Jack
‘I first went to India twenty years ago as a reporter.’
|Granta 130
|Granta 130
|Granta 130
Finished With Engines
Ian Jack
‘My father wrote a kind of autobiography in the years before he died.’
