Is it possible, by travelling to a new world, to become a new person? Jonathan...
A mad editorial tea-party celebrating Granta’s first ten years: John Simpson, Salman Rushdie, Ian Jack,...
A story becomes a story once it has an ending, and there is no ending...
This travel issue is dedicated to the memory of Bruce Chatwin with four unpublished pieces...
Martin Amis’s tale of Nicola Six, a girl who’s been trouble all her life. Plus:...
In 1946, at the age of twenty, Anthony Cavendish infiltrated a ring of arms traders...
Prague, Beirut, Des Moines, Derry, and the ugliest village in Essex. What is home for...
Hanif Kureishi’s first novella: a tale of Nadia and Nina, of two sisters, two cities,...
Bruce Chatwin in the outback, Ryszard Kapuscinski carrying a coffin through the Polish ‘bush’, and...
Redmond O’Hanlon in the Amazon jungle, Salman Rushdie in Nicaragua, Colin Thubron in China, Ryszard...
The companion volume to ‘Dirty Realism’ (Granta 8): unillusioned, spare fiction of the belly-side of...
‘We had found our way, we realized, into the Marcoses’ private rooms. It seemed to...
‘I find myself in 1985 refreshing my memory of 1937 and 1938 in an old...
For the last thirty or forty years, it has been a commonplace that science and...
Witty, bizarre, and verging on the lunatic – who in his right mind would gatecrash an...
The Americans call photography an art. But what I’m doing is not art. How can...
The Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, China, Cuba…what has happened to the nineteenth-century dream of...
Stanely Booth was meant to be the authorised biographer of the Rolling Stones, but, shortly...
In November 1956, the director of the Hungarian News Agency, shortly before his office was...
One of the most popular issues of Granta, now in its fifth printing. Including Jonathan...
