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Jonathan Levi

Jonathan Levi is a co-founder of Granta and served as U.S. Editor from 1979-1987. He is the author of the novels A Guide for the Perplexed and the recent Septimania as well as many plays and operas, including The Scrimshaw Violin based on his short story originally published in Granta 60. He currently lives in Rome and co-directs the Gabriel García Márquez Fellowship in Cultural Journalism in Cartagena, Colombia.

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In Conversation | Issue 147

In Conversation | Issue 147

Interview

Jonathan Levi

‘It’s a miracle that Granta survived our mutual adolescence.’

Fiction | Issue 147

Fiction | Issue 147

The Scrimshaw Violin

Jonathan Levi

‘Madeleine Gordon was not much of a Jew. She was a Starbuck, the daughter of whalers, pirates and other not-so-genteel Semitophobes of Nantucket’.

Essays & Memoir | Issue 1

Essays & Memoir | Issue 1

John Cheever in the Bourgeois Tradition

Jonathan Levi

‘For John Cheever, all gall is divided into three parts.’

Jonathan Levi on The Stories of John Cheever.