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Published in early May, just in time for summer reading, Granta 106 is a special issue devoted to fiction. Look out for the best short stories of the year, extracts from the most exciting autumn books and an exclusive interview with critically acclaimed short-story writer Mavis Gallant by the Pulitzer Prize-winning and "New York Times" bestselling author Jhumpa Lahiri. First published May 2009.

Packed with almost 200 million people speaking nearly sixty languages, brought into nationhood under the auspices of a single religion, but wracked with deep separatist fissures and the destabilizing forces of ongoing conflicts in Iran, Afghanistan and Kashmir, Pakistan is one of the most dynamic places in the world today. From the writers who are living outside the country - Daniyal Mueenuddin, Kamila Shamsie and Nadeem Aslam - to those going back - Mohsin Hamid and Mohammed Hanif - to those who are living there and writing in Urd... read more

Contains writing from people whose experience of life suggests they have something to tell us about survival.

In CRAP HOLIDAYS, Dan Kieran highlights 50 of the most disastrous - and hilarious - holidays from hell. From leaky caravans in Wales, to crushingly disappointing luxury hotels in Barbados. From dysentery in Goa, to bloody awful holiday companions who won't leave you alone. In fact, from Butlins to Bali, here you'll find stories of crap holiday sex, crime, food, accommodation, and of course, the inevitable family fights! Focusing on the gap between the wonderful promise and the grim reality, CRAP HOLIDAYS takes a step back in time t... read more

A new fiction special, introducing two new authors: Gary Shteyngart is not yet thirty. His story, Several Anecdotes About My Wife, is a funny & scurrilous account of a young Russian immigrant's disastrous marriage to a native New Yorker. Jon McGregor works as washer-up in a Nottingham restaurant. His story Jonas is a lyrical and disturbing account of a mysterious death in the Anglian fens. Plus: New short stories by Rachel Cusk, Edmund White and Jonathan Ley. Arthur Miller remembers his life at the Chelsea Hotel, with Brendan B... read more

Granta 79 centres around celebrity, both good and bad: Jason Cowley: the search for Hitler's doctor Fintan; O'Toole: an Irish republican looks at the Queen Kyle; Stone: how Hillary Clinton's home views Hillary ('Go home Billary!'); Riccardo Orizio: the cannibal emperor of the Central African Republic; Andrew Martin: the roller-coaster champion of the world; Dragisa Blanusa: eighty-nine days with Slobodan Milosevic; NEW FICTION: Geoff Dyer gets high in Amsterdam; Andrew O'Hagan: how a child star was born; Zoe Heller gets l... read more

Twice before - in 1983 and 1993 - Granta has chosen twenty writers under forty whose writing represents the best promise or achievement in British fiction. Twenty years ago that list included Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Graham Swift and Pat Barker. Who are their equivalents today?

This issue features Simon Gray in Barbados, rocking in his pram, smoking, remembering Alan Bates; Sa

What do the people of Africa feel, in their diverse cultures and classes and nations? We know what Bob Geldof and Tony Blair think about Africa - as the continent that most needs salvation. But what do the people of Africa feel, in their diverse cultures and classes and nations? Africa is too large and diverse for generalizations. It has fifty-four nations, five time zones, at least seven climates, more than 800 million people and, according to the latest diligent research, maybe 14 million proverbs. South Africa and Burkina... read more

The politics of religion around the world, featuring John McGahern, A. L. Kennedy, Richard Mabey, Simon Gray, Geoff Dyer, Jackie Kay, Pankaj Mishra, Nell Freudenberger and others on their personal experiences

Where travel writing went next Tim Parks on the joys of commuting from Verona to Milan every day; Christopher de Bellaigue on tracking down the Armenians in Turkey; Jeremy Treglown following in the footsteps of V S Pritchett in Spain; Jeremy Seabrook on being separated from his twin; Todd McEwen on Cary Grant's trousers. Plus new fiction by: Ann Beattie, Tessa Hadley and Claire Keegan. First published 2006.

As long as people have been writing, they have been writing about nature. But nature - as we know it - is changing. Economic migration, overpopulation and - most significantly - climate change are shaping the natural world into something unfamiliar. Instead of providing a respite from the urban landscape, the natural world now reflects our mistakes; our abuse; our politics. As our conception and experience of nature changes, so too does the way we write about it. "Granta 102" will be a seminal collection, addressing lost worlds, va... read more

Our world is changing at a dizzying pace: our physical environment, our communities and our cultures, how we communicate and the speed with which we adapt to new ways of experiencing and living in the world. Caught in the midst of decline and regeneration, what are we losing and what are we gaining? And how do we decide what's worth saving and what should be thrown away? In this issue, we travel to places on the cusp of staggering change, talk to people who have seen and done it all and rescue a few choice items from the recycling ... read more

With its mixture of investigative reportage, narrative non-fiction, photography, memoir, fiction and brilliant journalism, "Granta 107" follows on from the critically-acclaimed summer reading issue to showcase more of the best new writing from around the world. In the issue, Mary Gaitskill meditates on how we measure varieties of loss after the disappearance of her rescued cat; Will Self walks through Tehran thirty years on from the revolution; Timothy Phillips uncovers a story of espionage in London between the wars; and, Rana Das... read more

Saul Bellow and Ernest Hemingway grew up there. The eight-hour work day, the Ponzi scheme and the rhythm and blues have risen from its streets. But Chicago is not just a city of the past. In this dynamic issue, "Granta" brings the one-time industrial hub to life through the eyes of exciting new writers, from homegrown stars like George Saunders and Dave Eggers, to immigrants who have come to the city from Bosnia, South Korea and Ethiopia. In this issue, Aleksandar Hemon plays football with Italians and Tibetans along lakeshore driv... read more