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  • Granta 163

    Best of Young British Novelists 5

    by Sigrid Rausing ...
    Granta 163: Best of Young British Novelists 5 celebrates the twenty most significant writers under forty working in the UK in 2023. Previous issues in this series have earmarked rising stars like Kazuo Ishiguro, Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith and Jeanette Winterson. This cohort was selected by judges Tash Aw, Rachel Cusk, Brian Dillon, Helen Oyeyemi and Sigrid Rausing.The fifth generation is Graeme ... Read more

    $14.79 CAD

  • Granta 139

    Best of Young American Novelists 3

    by Sigrid Rausing ...
    The third volume of Granta's renowned, and prescient, Best of Young American Novelists.Every ten years, Granta devotes an issue to new American fiction by writers under the age of forty, showcasing the young novelists deemed to be the best of their generation - writers of remarkable achievement and promise.In 1997 and 2007 we picked out such luminaries as Edwidge Danticat, Jeffrey Eugenides, ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Everything Is Wonderful

    Memories of a Collective Farm in Estonia

    by Sigrid Rausing ...
    "Pages of dreamlike prose explore Estonia's terrible Nazi-Soviet past, the trauma of dictatorship, and how memory processes that trauma." — The Financial TimesA Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the YearJust like it was taken for granted that houses could be abandoned and slowly decay, so it was taken for granted that people died in prisons, and that it was possible that no-one would really ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Granta 152: Still Life

    by Sigrid Rausing ...
    Series series
    In this issue of Granta, produced under lockdown conditions, writers respond to the coronavirus crisis: Leanne Shapton, Viken Berberian, Janine di Giovanni, Michael Hofmann and China Mi�ville.Featuring fiction by Ann Beattie, Emma Cline, Mark Haddon, Joanna Kavenna, David Means, Adam Nicolson and Jason Ockert; and poetry by Ken Babstock, Will Harris, Colin Herd and Sam Sax.Photography by Teju Cole ... Read more

    $26.59 CAD

  • Granta 147

    40th-Birthday Special

    by Sigrid Rausing ...
    Series series
    In 1979, Bill Buford, a young American graduate, revived an old Cambridge university magazine and created a new home for good writing of all kinds - reportage, fiction, memoir, poetry - as well as photography. In the years (and decades) that followed, Granta established itself as the one of the most prestigious literary publications in the English-speaking world. In that time Granta has published ... Read more

    $14.79 CAD

  • Granta 156: Interiors

    by Sigrid Rausing ...
    Series series The Magazine of New Writing
    Granta 156: Interiors includes poetry by Kaveh Akbar, Sasha Debevec-McKenney and Gboyega Odubanjo, as well as memoir by Chris Dennis, Debra Gwartney, Ruchir Joshi and Sandra Newman. This summer issue features fiction by Jesse Ball, Claire-Louise Bennett, Eva Freeman, Sara Freeman, Tao Lin<... ... Read more

    $26.59 CAD

  • Granta 140

    State of Mind

    by Sigrid Rausing ...
    In an age when we are finally taking mental health as seriously as physical health, this issue of Granta explores the conscious self: how it perceives, judges and lives in the world.John Barth rocks himself to sleepRana Dasgupta investigates a live-streamed suicideJoe Dunthorne travels to Cyprus for the Writers' World Cup football tournamentCharles Glass talks with an ISIS execution... ... Read more

    $16.29 CAD

  • Mayhem

    A Memoir

    by Sigrid Rausing ...
    A searingly powerful memoir about the impact of addiction on a family.In the summer of 2012 a woman named Eva was found dead in the London townhouse she shared with her husband, Hans K. Rausing. The couple had struggled with drug addiction for years, often under the glare of tabloid headlines. Now, writing with singular clarity and restraint, Hans’ sister, the editor and publisher Sigrid Rausing, ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Granta 132

    Possession

    by Sigrid Rausing ...
    In this issue, Oliver Bullough travels to Ukraine and Crimea in the wake of revolution; Kerry Howley writes about cage fighting and giving birth in Texas; Molly Brodak remembers her father, a compulsive gambler and failed bank robber; and Bella Pollen describes being visited - repeatedly - by an incubus. Here are fifteen takes on the human drive to possess - a person, a home, a territory - and the ... Read more

    $17.69 CAD

  • Granta 138

    Journeys

    by Sigrid Rausing ...
    What are the ethics of writing about a place you visit as an outsider? With Granta's long tradition of travel writing in mind, we ask some of the foremost writers of the genre: is travel writing dead?Tara Bergin, Rana Dasgupta, Geoff Dyer, Eliza Griswold, Mohsin Hamid, Lindsey Hilsum, Colin Thubron, Pico Iyer, Ian Jack, Robert Macfarlane, Wendell Steavenson, Samanth Subramanian and Alexis ... Read more

    $16.29 CAD

  • Granta 129

    Fate

    by Sigrid Rausing ...
    Series series Granta: The Magazine of New Writing
    Granta 129 brings you twenty-two meditations on fate in all its many forms. From Joseph Roth's reflection on Sarajevo in the wake of the First World War to Cynthia Ozick's exploration of the limits of belief, this issue stretches our understanding of fate, both in fact and in fiction.Striking the keys of the same typewriter that once sat under J.G. Ballard's fingers, Will Self reimagines the ... Read more

    $22.19 CAD

  • Granta 134

    No Man's Land

    by Sigrid Rausing ...
    Who collects the bodies of the soldiers who die in the endless conflict in Afghanistan? What do children make of war, or the mental illness of their siblings? Did you ever consider the meaning of divorce in Chile, or informants in Ceausescu's Romania? Our fiction in this issue, by Azam Ahmed, George Makana Clark, Herta M�ller, Eric Puchner, David Rakoff and Alejandro Zambra, chronicles con... ... Read more

    $22.19 CAD