This collection of stories and essays sometimes treads familiar ground but the writing is generally polished and provocative. Bill Morris's tale takes us back to Detroit 1954 when Cadillac was king, Marilyn Monroe was a sex queen and General Motors's fier

With novelists A. S. Byatt and Salman Rushdie and Waterstone's marketing director John Mitchinson, Granta editor Buford chose the "best" 20 British novelists under the age of 40 (see p. 81 for details on the controversy the list generated in England). Rea

The latest edition of the impressive international literary magazine features writing so amusing or powerful or urgent that it must be read now. Controversial and throught-provoking, Granta boasts readers around the world, numbering more than 140,000, who

Many fine pieces make up this Granta issue. There's Thomas Kern's photo journal of Sarajevo, and Ivan Klima's childhood in Terezin. And then there's Bruce Chatwin and his moleskin journals. From one of them comes a selection titled "The Road to Ouidah," s

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This edition of Granta focusing on 'Crime' takes a unique approach, incorporating contemporary examples of short "crime fiction" with two real-life accounts of murders committed in Glasgow, as told by the murderers themselves. It seems this structure enco

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