Ian Jack

• Jan-1996
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• Mar-1997
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The magazine Granta is renowned for its expansive coverage of important issues, the diversity of its writers, and the breadth of talent it displays. This latest collection features a selection of fiction, reportage, memoir, and more, centering around...

• Dec-1998
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More than 140,000 readers around the world savor the fiction, reportage, polemics, autobiography, history, and travel writing presented in Granta. Contributors such as Paul Theroux, Salman Rushdie, Nadine Gordimer, and Mary Karr deliver writing that ...

• Sep-1999
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How do we cope with the public and private disaster? Jasmina Tesanovic on being bombed in Belgrade -- The Diary of a Political Idiot; Ian Jack on good behavior aboard the Titanic; Joy Williams on the necessary death of her dog Hawk; Edward Said on th...

• Feb-2001
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In a powerful piece of imagination, Henk van Woerden reconstructs the strange, affecting history of Demetrios Tsafendas -- the man who assassinated Hendrik Verwoerd, South African premier and architect of apartheid. Also in this issue: Diana Athill o...

• Feb-2001
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The talking cure, otherwise known as analysis or therapy. Invented Vienna, c. 1886. Most celebrated exponents: Sigmund Freud, Jerry Springer. Favorite question: Can you tell me a little more about that? Diseases to which normally addressed...

• Feb-2001
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This issue includes the original expose, by Elena Lappin, of Binjamin Wilomirski's bogus Holocaust memoir which William Sutcliffe described in the Independent on Sunday as "the most gripping thing I read this year." Photographer Jillian Edelstein rep...

• Jul-2001
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In the latest issue of the magazine that Vogue called �"the pinnacle of literary and political writing,” a celebrated writer makes an anonymous confession and defends a habit: his son supplies him with Ecstasy. Nicholas Shakespeare discovers the ev...

• Jan-2002
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Published in the U.S. since 1979, Granta is a handsomely illustrated paperback featuring outstanding articles that illustrate a theme. The Music issue examines how music is made and what it means � -- from plainsong to bounce. Contributors include P...

• Apr-2002
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Published in the U.S. since 1979, Granta is a handsomely illustrated paperback featuring outstanding articles. �"Granta’s contributors constitute an impossibly distinguished list.” � -- The Washington Post...

• Sep-2002
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Published in the U.S. since 1979, Granta is a handsomely illustrated paperback featuring outstanding articles. This issue of Granta includes: Jason Cowley on the search for Hitler's doctor; Kyle Stone on how Hillary Clinton's home views Hillary ('GO ...

• Oct-2003
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The world we were born into has gone. We shall never completely recapture its climate, its seasons, the way its plants grew and its animals lived. This is not a wild-eyed prediction, a man on the street with a placard ("THE END IS NIGH"). Respectable...

• Jan-2004
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The USA is the world¹s newest, greatest, and only empire. Some would say it is the world¹s most insular state as well as the most powerful, never troubling to correct its ignorance of the people and places beyond its borders. Is it a slander? In th...

• May-2004
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GRANTA 85: HIDDEN HISTORIESRepressed personal experiences, neglected battles, forgotten civilizations: an issue of Granta that excavates the unfairly buried event, the secret life, the overlooked war. With: Diana Athill on her lost baby, Giles Foden ...

• Oct-2004
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This special edition of Granta celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary with a rich collection of new pieces by some of the writers who helped make its reputation, and by others who may do so in future.Featuring:
MARTIN AMIS rewrites Jane Austen fo...

• Jan-2005
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Ma, mummy, mom, mere, mataji, madre, mutter, mamma mia!�'What made her uncertain were the proper boundaries between children and adults, love and sex, work and play. What bewildered her were her children.’� -- Edmund White, �'The Merry Widow’�'My...

• Aug-2005
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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.
Tim Adams goes on a fox hunt, Craig Taylor returns to Akenfield thirt...

• Oct-2005
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Granta 91 is about ordinary life in Africa now -- without the gauze of sentiment or glare of media lights. Featuring new fiction from leading African writers, both established and new, including younger writers from the African diaspora such as Ch...