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From Nobel laureates to debut novelists, international translations to investigative journalism, each issue of Granta turns the attention of the world's best writers on to one aspect of the way we live now. This spring issue will feature award-winning writer William Atkins on the proposed nuclear power station Sizewell C.
From Nobel laureates to debut novelists, international translations to investigative journalism, each issue of Granta turns the attention of the world's best writers on to one aspect of the way we live now. This winter issue will feature Fatima Bhutto on her dog Coco, Andrew McMillan on the Goosebumps series, as well as non-fiction by Chris Dennis and Jacob Dlamini and fiction by Debbie Urbanski and Julie Hecht.
From Antarctica and the deserts of the US-Mexico border, to a Siberian whale-killing station and the alleyways of Taipei, these dispatches describe a world in perpetual motion (even when it is 'locked-down'). To travel, we are reminded, is to embrace the experience of being a stranger - to acknowledge that one person's frontier is another's home.In 1984 Granta published its first issue devoted to travel writing. Nearly forty years after that genre-defining volume, a new generation of writers from around the globe offers a new vision of what travel writing can be.Granta 157 is guest-edited by award-winning travel writer William Atkins. It features: Jason Allen-Paisant remembers the trees of his childhood Jamaica from his home in LeedsCarlos Manuel Alvarez navigates Cuba's customs systemEliane Brum travels from her home in the Brazilian Amazon to Antarctica in the era of climate crisisFrancisco Cantu and Javier Zamora: a former border guard travels to the US-Mexico border with a former undocumented migrant who crossed the border as a childJennifer Croft's richly illustrated essay on postcards and graffiti, inspired by Los Angeles Bathsheba Demuth visits a whale-hunting station on the Bering Strait, RussiaSinead Gleeson visits Brazil with Clarice LispectorKate Harris with the Tinglit people of the Taku River basin, AlaskaArtist Roni Horn on Iceland Emmanuel Iduma returns to Lagos in his late father's footsteps, NigeriaKapka Kassabova among the gatherers of the ancient Mesta River, BulgariaTaran Khan with Afghan migrants in Germany and Kabul Jessica J. Lee in the alleyways of Taipei, Taiwan, in search of her mother's homeSven Lindqvist in the Mauritanian Sahara in 1987 - a previously unpublished essay by the late icon of travel writingBen Mauk among the volcanoes of Duterte's Philippines Pascale Petit tracks tigers in Paris and IndiaPhotographer James Tylor on the legacy of whaling in Indigenous South Australia
Granta 155: Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists 2 showcases the work of twenty-five writers in the Spanish speaking world, chosen by judges Chloe Aridjis, Horacio Castellanos Moya, Rodrigo Fres�n, Aurelio Major, Gaby Wood and guest-editor Valerie Miles. This issue of Granta is published simultaneously with the Spanish edition Granta en Espa�ol 23: Los Mejores Narradores J�venes en Espa�ol 2, in Spain and in the US.
Published in book form four times a year, Granta is respected around the world for its mix of outstanding new fiction, poetry, reportage, memoir, photography and art.Granta 149: New Europe includes essays by Elif Shafak, UKON, Andrew Miller, Will Atkins, Lara Feigel, Katherine Angel, Michael Hofmann, Joseph Koerner, Tom McCarthy and many more. It harks back to the 1989 issue of the same name, themed around the response to the fall of the Berlin wall. Through the lenses of exile and migration, we ask ourselves what it means to be European now. Featuring a photoessay by Bruno Fert who steps inside the temporary homes of refugees in camps in Greece and France.
The fourth instalment of Granta's always compelling, prescient and star-making Best of Young British Novelists list.
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