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  • - Beasts
    by Ian Jack
    £13.49

    This issue takes a wayward look at the lives of beasts. A dog prepares for the death of his master; a movie-going tarantula has a crush on Nicole Kidman; and a raven learns to speak Spanish. Photography of China's new young women and the streets of New York also features.

  • - Brief Encounters
    by Ian Jack
    £13.49

    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.

  • - Overreachers
    by Ian Jack
    £22.49

    There was always the - is this it? - issue. It made him think of his father again. His father had been a New Yorker and had New Yorker ways. His father always felt there should be more, more for Henry and his brothers. More than they had. To accept, to not overreach, was to accept defeat.

  • - Shrinks
    by Ian Jack
    £22.49

    This issue examines the experience from the patient's couch and the psychiatrist's chair, in both fiction and non-fiction. The contributors include Elliot Perlman, Patrick McGrath, Edmund White and Ved Mehta.

  • - The Assassin
    by Ian Jack
    £22.49

    In 1966, the South African premier, Hendrik Verwoerd was stabbed to death in the South African parliament. Who was the killer and what was his motives? A political enemy of the system? A madman?

  • - Women And Children First
    by Ian Jack
    £22.49

    This issue reflects a variety of the extreme individual experience provided by the 20th century. James Hamilton-Paterson recounts his rape by five men in Libya; Marlon Brando reveals the stupidities of celebrity to Studs Terkel; and Andrew Brown describes the death of God in the Church of England.

  • - Russia The Wild East
    by Ian Jack
    £15.49

    This issue on Russia explores how an old country is finding new ways to think and write. As well as fiction by Russian writers, there is a report on a visit to the once unvisitable Siberia, interviews with the survivors of Stalin's gulag, and a discussion of the place of vodka in Russian culture.

  • - Unlikely Ends, Fateful Escapes And The Fascism Of Flowers
    by Ian Jack
    £22.49

  • - What Young Men Do
    by Ian Jack
    £22.49

    In this edition of the Granta magazine, Richard Lloyd Parry reports on the savage civil war taking place in Indonesia and Nicholas Shakespeare writes on Martha Gelhorn and why she hated her husband, Ernest Hemingway.

  • by Ian Jack
    £12.99

    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.

  • by Ian Jack
    £29.99

    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.

  • - War Zones
    by Ian Jack
    £22.49

    Contains dispatches from the world of conflict, in the battlefield and in the home, including: James Buchan on Iran's nuclear weapons programme; Jasmina Tesanovic on the death squads of Serbia; Hugh Raffles on cricket-fighting in Shanghai; and fiction by Tahmima Anam and Edmund White.

  • - What We Think Of America
    by Ian Jack
    £13.49

    In this issue, writers from across the world describe how America has affected them - culturally, politically, economically, as citizens, as writers, as children and as adults, for better or worse.

  • - Loved Ones
    by Ian Jack
    £22.49

    Looks at the nature of love: it can be hard to love the people we should love; sometimes objects of affection are easier. This issue includes an account of a boyhood spent caring for a father with Parkinson's Disease ('Who are you?'), Jeremy Seabrook on the twin brother he hardly knew, and Sean Wilsey on his devotion to bicycles.

  • by Ian Jack
    £11.99

    A new edition of The Granta Book of Reportage featuring distinguished writers and reporters - John Simpson, James Fenton, Martha Gellhorn, Germaine Greer, Ryszard Kapuscinski - this book covers some of the signal events of our time.

  • - This Overheating World
    by Ian Jack
    £22.49

    Not so much the state we're in as the mess we're getting into. Reports and stories from the frontiers of climate change and environmental (and human) catastrophe.

  • - Hidden Histories
    by Ian Jack
    £22.49

    Repressed personal experiences, neglected battles, forgotten civilisations: an issue of Granta that excavates the unfairly buried event, the secret life, the overlooked.

  • - The Deep End
    by Ian Jack
    £22.49

    Contains writing from people whose experience of life suggests they have something to tell us about survival.

  • - The Best Of Young American Novelists
    by Ian Jack
    £22.49

    Features the work by the twenty writers that Granta's judges - including novelists Edmund White and AM Homes - have selected as the most interesting young voices in American fiction.

  • - God's Own Countries
    by Ian Jack
    £22.49

    The politics of religion around the world

  • - Wish You Were Here
    by Ian Jack
    £22.49

    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.

  • - Country Life - Dispatches From What's Left Of It
    by Ian Jack
    £22.49

    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.

  • - Jublilee
    by Ian Jack
    £22.49

    A celebration of Granta's first quarter century with new writing from the writers who made its reputation, including Martin Amis, Paul Auster, William Boyd, Amit Chaudhul, Richard Ford, James Hamilton-Paterson, Jan Morris, Blake Morrison, Jayne Anne Phillips, Paul Theroux and Edmund White.

  • - Over There: How America Sees The Rest Of The World
    by Ian Jack
    £22.49

    Granta magazine's 71st issue, "What We Think of America", was a prescient reflection of the USA's deepening political unpopularity among people outside its own borders. But what do Americans themselves think of their country's new imperialism - and of the world it rules?

  • - Celebrity
    by Ian Jack
    £22.49

    This edition centres around celebrity, both good and bad. Contributions include: the search for Hitler's doctor; an Irish republican looks at the Queen Kyle Stone; how Hillary Clinton's home views Hillary; and the cannibal emperor of the Central African Republic.

  • - Bad Company
    by Ian Jack
    £22.49

    This edition is a fiction special and includes new short stories by Rachel Cusk, Edmund White and Jonathan Ley.

  • - Music
    by Ian Jack
    £22.49

    Granta Magazine publishes the best of fiction, memoir, reportage and photography, only using work that has never been published before. Contributions include: Nik Cohn on "Bounce in New Orleans"; "Dr Feelgood" by Hugo Williams; Ian Jack on Kathleen Ferrier; and "Frank Sinatra" by Richard Williams.

  • - Confessions Of A Middle-Aged Ecstacy-Eater
    by Ian Jack
    £8.99

    In this issue of Granta Magazine, a distinguished writer makes an anonynous confession and defends a habit: his son supplies him with ecstasy. Other contributions include Nicholas Shakespeare on discovering the evil of his ancestors, and works from Amanda Hopkinson and Andrew Brown.

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