Books by Ian Jack
The Granta Book of Reportage (Classics of Reportage)
by James Fenton, Ian Jack, Martha Gellhorn
This new edition collects a dozen of the finest pieces of reportage Granta has published. Featuring distinguished writers and reporters such as James Fenton, Martha Gellhorn, Ryszard Kapuscinski, John le Carré, Joseph Lelyveld and Marilynne Robinson, as well as such new talents as Suketu Mehta and Wendell Steavenson, the book covers some of the signal events of our time: the fall of Saigon, the massacre in Tiananmen Square, and the aftermath of the American invasion of Iraq.
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Granta 130: New Indian Writing (The Magazine of New Writing, 130)
by Ian Jack
A powerful curiosity is the hallmark of new kind of Indian writing: important questions about the country's past and present have found their expression in different forms of non-fiction story-telling that twenty years ago tended to be preserve of richer societies in the west. Biography, memoir, narrative history, reportage, the travel account: all these forms now have their interesting and original practitioners in India. In this Granta issue they tackle questions ranging from rape in the paddy fields of Bengal to the end of the Delhi intelligentsia. And there is room, as always, for the best of India's fiction.
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Granta 96: War Zones
by Ian Jack
Dispatches from the world of conflict, in the battlefield and in the home. Featuring James Buchan on Iran’s nuclear weapons program and Jasmina Tesanovic on the death squads of Serbia, plus new fiction by Edmund White and a photo essay on Britain’s hidden military bases by Simon Norfolk and Neal Ascherson.
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Granta 95: Loved Ones (The Magazine of New Writing)
by Ian Jack
It can be hard to love the people we should love; sometimes objects of affection are easier. This issue features Jonathan Taylor’s frank and funny account of a boyhood spent caring for a father with Parkinson’s Disease (Who are you?’), and James Lasdun revisits Forest Lawns cemetery, inspiration for Evelyn Waugh’s The Loved One. How does Los Angeles bury its dead today? Plus new fiction by David Malouf, Rebecca Miller and Jim Shepard.
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Granta 90: Country Life
by Ian Jack
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 thirty-five years after Ronald Blythe's landmark book, Jeff Sharlet finds out what's eating rural Coloradans. Plus Margaret Atwood, James Hamilton-Paterson, Barry Lopez, Orhan Pamuk and Tim Winton on the weather. And Matthew Reisz on his grandmother's affair with Havelock Ellis, the grandfather of sexual studies.
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Granta 88: Mothers: The Magazine of New Writing (Granta Magazine)
by Ian Jack
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 mother spoke to me of heaven as concretely and with as much love as she named the wild flowers. It was her prayer and fervent hope that we would all live there together in happiness with God for all eternity.’
John McGahern, The Lanes to Heaven’
And:
Ian McEwan on a visit to mother
Alexandra Fuller gives birth in Zambia
Paul Theroux on a wicked old mother
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on trying to oblige mother with a man
Masha Gessen on her mother’s mutant geneand her own
Richard Beard on the moment the mother-in-law joke is no longer funny
Plus Jim Lewis on the art of falling asleep, Ryszard Kapuscinski on his experience in the Second World War, and a photo essay on things plucked from the streets of New York by one of its greatest reporters, Joseph Mitchell.
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Granta 92 (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing)
by Ian Jack
This issue of Granta reveals what the Africans themselves think about their continent with its diverse cultures and classes among its many nations. Granta 92 includes new writing from such literary superstars as J.M. Coetzee, Zakes Mda, Emmanuel Dongala, and Tahar Ben Jelloun. It also includes a nonfiction piece by Daniel Bergner about a former LAPD policeman who now works for the United Nations training police in war-torn Liberia.
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Granta 87: Jubilee! The 25th Anniversary Issue (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing)
by Ian Jack
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 for a film of Northanger Abbey
AMIT CHAUDHURI meets the troubled icon of secular India
PHILIP GOUREVITCH asks why we commemorate genocide
JAN MORRIS picks her nose and wonders what death will be like
WENDELL STEAVENSON gets to know an Iraqi terrorist
GRAHAM SWIFT remembers his father
And:
TIM ADAMS learns why shredders are a good idea
JAMES HAMILTON-PATERSON reveals his boyhood as a champion bomb-maker
PATRICIA HAMPL sees the wrong picture snapped in Palestine
ISABEL HILTON discovers that General Stroessner, ex-dictator of Paraguay, is still alive
PANKAJ MISHRA finds out what it takes to make it in Bollywood
BLAKE MORRISON examines the afterlife of his family memoir
Plus:
New fiction from PAUL AUSTER, WILLIAM BOYD, J. ROBERT LENNON
and HELEN SIMPSON, and a newly-discovered story by one of England's finest short story writers, V.S. PRITCHETT.
And a picture essay by TOBY GLANVILLE, tracing the course of the river that gave the magazine its name
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Granta 98: The Deep End (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing)
by Ian Jack
The secret enthusiasms that sustain us bicycling, stamp collecting, butterfly hunting, gardening, absurd days with a golf club or finding a fishing rod: what writers do or dream of when not writing. Featuring new writings by Sean Wilsey, Thomas Lynch, and Luc Santé.
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Granta 99: What Happened Next (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing)
by Matt Weiland, Ian Jack, Liz Jobey, Fatema Ahmed, Helen Gordon
In the deep end: struggling maybe, but waving not drowning. This issue of Granta contains writing from people whose experience of life suggests they have something to tell us about survival. Featuring Diana Athill, the renowned author of Stet, on the lessons of old age, and interviews with soldiers returning from Iraq by Craig Taylor. Plus new fiction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Javier Cercas, Gerard Donovan, Richard Ford, Tessa Hadley, Jackie Kay, Thomas Lynch, Helen Simpson, and Paul Theroux.
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Granta 89: The Factory
by Ian Jack
Britain invented the factory -- Manchester was the world's first factory-city. Where are they now, and the world of work that went with them? The answer, mainly, is China. An issue devoted to how and where we made and make things.
Featuring Isabel Hilton in the new factories of China, Joe Sacco on Chechen rebels living in an abandoned dairy factory, Andrew Martin in the chocolate factories of York, Neil Steinberg on the last lamps in Chicago, Des Barry on the factory where his father worked, Liz Jobey on turning a factory into a home and Luc Sante on the boredom of factory work.
Plus new fiction by James Lasdun and Tessa Hadley
With a picture essay on a Rust Belt factory of the American midwest by Alec Soth.
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Granta 91: Wish You Were Here: The Magazine of New Writing (Granta Magazine)
by Ian Jack
Granta 91 is about ordinary life in Africa nowwithout 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 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Helon Habila. Plus Daniel Berger on the former Los Angeles cop now training Liberian police, John Ryle on Mussolini and the obelisk he stole from Ethiopia, and Andrew Rice on a Ugandan man in search of his son, kidnapped by rebels.
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On the Road Again: Where Travel Writing Went Next (The Magazine of New Writing Series)
by Ian Jack
Featuring Jeremy Treglown following in the footsteps of V. S. Pritchett in Spain, Tim Parks on the joys and sorrows of commuting from Verona to Milan, and Christopher de Bellaigue tracking down the Armenians in Turkey. Plus Todd McEwen on Cary Grant’s trousers and new fiction by Ann Beattie, Tessa Hadley, and Jim Shepard.
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Granta Volume 93: God's Own Countries
by Ian Jack
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 more on their personal experiencesclose, baffling, acrimonious, or nonexistent of the divine.
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Granta 86: Film: The Magazine of New Writing
by Ian Jack
Granta goes to the movies. This issue includes Thomas Keneally on finding Schindler's List, Roger Lewis on Peter Sellers, Pankaj Mishra in Bombay, Ian Jack on the Roxy, the Rialto, the Ritz and the Regal, Andrew O'Hagan on his years as a movie critic, and the stories of the people who fell from stardom in Hollywood.
Plus: new fiction by Tessa Hadley and Jim Lewis.
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The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian (New York Review Books Classics)
by Ian Jack, Nirad C. Chaudhuri
The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian is an astonishing work of self-discovery and the revelation of a peerless and provocative sensibility. Describing his childhood in the Bengali countryside and his youth in Calcutta—and telling the story of modern India from his own fiercely independent viewpoint—Chaudhuri fashions a book of deep conviction, charm, and intimacy that is also a masterpiece of the writer's art.
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