First there was the traveler; then the word was emigrants. In America, they turned into immigrants. And today — in many parts of the world — they are (we are) aliens. From somewhere else.
The Catholic Church is by far the largest Christian denomination and the largest organized body of any world religion. Well over a billion people - more than one-sixth of the world's population - belo
Expands the author's original choice to include stories that he regretted overlooking first time around as well as many by a generation of writers, among them Sherman Alexie, Junot Diaz, Deborah Eisen
Francoise, an Australian photographer, travels to Bhopal in India, where twenty years earlier a gas leak killed thousands. There she meets Naga, a Tibetan refugee whose family died in the disaster, a
Sofka Zinovieff had fallen in love with Greece as a student, but little suspected that years later she would, return for good with an expatriate Greek husband and two young daughters. This book is a
This bold, political issue of Granta will explore the dynamic between women and men from a wide variety of literary genres and perspectives. A.L. Kennedy investigates the surprising ways in which the
In 1996, Granta's first Best of Young American Novelists issue included Jeffrey Eugenides, Jonathan Franzen and Lorrie Moore. Who will match them in the new generation? This special issue features or
Drawing on American and European intelligence documents, Uki Goni shows how from 1946 onward a Nazi escape operation was based at the presidential palace in Buenos Aires, harboring such war criminals
The Maze prison was opened in 1976, at the height of the conflict in Northern Ireland, and held both republican and loyalist prisoners in its eight identical H-blocks. Through its history of protests,
Leonard Setright was one of the twentieth century's most influential and idiosyncratic motoring journalists. Long Lane with Turnings is a memoir of his early years and the author's last book, left un
Siblings Ismael, Rosie and Cristina are deaf, and so are many in their Maya village. The deaf and hearing alike communicate in sign language, forming a tightly-knit community with an unsophisticated,
These ingenious interviews will amuse, provoke and delight. Veering from the intensely serious to the wildly silly,Dead Interviews grants writers the chance to sit down with their heroes and flex thei
In this provocative novel Mark Blacklock portrays the true and complex history of John Humble, aka Wearside Jack, the Ripper Hoaxer, a timewaster and criminal, sympathetic and revolting, the man hidde
Not so long ago, our roads, buildings, gravestones and monuments were built from local rock, our cities were powered by coal from Welsh mines, and our lamps were lit with paraffin from Scottish shale.
Michael Jacobs was haunted by Velázquez's enigmatic masterpiece Las Meninas from first encountering it in the Prado as a teenager. InEverything is Happening Jacobs searches for the ultimate significan
Vanessa Nicolson is the granddaughter of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson. She was born to an illustrious name and an unhappy marriage. Her father, the art historian Ben Nicolson, was homosexua
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.Margaret Atwood, Chimamanda Ngozi
