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Granta 118: Exit Strategies by Various, John Freeman (Editor)
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Category: Anthologies & Journals
Be it a wrong turn, a bad relationship, a debilitating illness or a war, every action creates a reaction, every move is followed by another move. How do we get out of what we've gotten ourselves into? Granta 118 zooms in close on the phenomenon of the exit strategy. In a new story, Alice Munro writes o ...Show more
Granta: 119 - Britain by John Freeman (ed.)
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Category: Anthologies & Journals
In 2012, Britain is a nation in flux, managing difficult socioeconomic realities, contending with new political alliances and negotiating shifting demographics. Yet it is a country that is still perceived as being bound by tradition and class structures. With new fiction, memoir, poetry, photography and ...Show more
Granta 120: Medicine by John Freeman (ed.)
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Category: Essays
A writer chronicles the surrender of her body to MS; a woman running a substance-abuse clinic faces challenges from clients, donors and her own past; two brothers fix up a house - but can't quite fix the aging parents who will live in it. From the chalky horse-pills of faceless pharmaceutical conglomera ...Show more
Granta 121: Best of Young Brazilian Novelists by John Freeman
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Category: Fiction
Since Granta's inaugural list of the Best of Young British Novelists in 1983 - featuring Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, Kazuo Ishiguro, Martin Amis and Julian Barnes - the Best of Young issues have been some of the magazine's most influential. In 2010, Granta looked beyond the English-speaking world with B ...Show more
Granta 122: Betrayal by John Freeman
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Category: Anthologies & Journals
In the world of the future, people exist in a perpetual state of rehearsing evacuations, and one man's rehearsal involves leaving his parents behind. A firespotter knows all too well that where there's smoke, there's fire - but fails to spot the blaze that consumes half her family. Then there's the Cust ...Show more
Granta 123: Best of Young British Novelists 4 by John Freeman
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Category: Anthologies & Journals
The fourth instalment of Granta's always compelling, prescient and star-making Best of Young British Novelists list.
Granta 124: Travel by John Freeman
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Category: Travel Writing
Hari Kunzru travels to Chernobyl, Detroit, and Japan to investigate the phenomenon of disaster tourism. Policeman-turned-detective-turned-writer A Yi describes life as a provincial gumshoe in China. Physician Siddhartha Mukherjee visits a government hospital in New Delhi, where he meets Madha Sengupta, ...Show more
Granta 125: After the War by John Freeman
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Category: Anthologies & Journals | Series: Magazine of New Writing
It is not just nations that are made and destroyed by war - families are scattered, boundaries of loyalty redrawn. The autumn issue of Granta explores the aftermath of conflict. Patrick French writes of a great uncle whose death in the Second World War transformed the family line. A powerful new story b ...Show more
How to Read a Novelist by John Freeman
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Category: On Writing
John Freeman, author and editor of Granta magazine, has interviewed nearly every name in fiction and the literary world. In this collection Freeman has compiled the most insightful and fascinating of his interviews, essays and articles. Paul Theroux on the state of sex in America, Margaret Atwood as inv ...Show more
Tales of Two Cities - The Best and Worst of Times in Today's New York by John Freeman
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Category: Travel Writing
In a city where the top one percent earns more than a half-million dollars per year while 25 thousand children are homeless, public discourse about our entrenched and worsening wealth gap has never been more sorely needed. This remarkable anthology of essays and stories is the literary world's response, ...Show more
Tales of Two Planets: Stories of Climate Change and Inequality in a Divided World by John Freeman (Editor)
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Category: Anthologies & Journals
Building from his acclaimed anthology Tales of Two Americas, beloved writer and editor John Freeman draws together a group of our greatest writers from around the world to help us see how the environmental crisis is hitting some of the most vulnerable communities where they live. In the past five year ...Show more
The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story by John Freeman, John Freeman
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Category: Anthologies & Journals
A selection of the best and most representative contemporary American short fiction from 1970 to 2020, including such authors as Ursula K. LeGuin, Toni Cade Bambara, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandra Cisneros, and Ted Chiang, hand-selected by celebrated editor and anthologist John FreemanIn the past fifty years, th ...Show more