Granta: The First Twenty-One Years

First edition. 8vo. Pp. ix, 383, [1]. Pink printed card wraps. Brief writers' bios.

Since its relaunch in 1979 as a magazine of "new writing", Granta has published many of the world's finest writers tackling some of the planet's most important subjects in fictional, reportage, and photographic essay form. Bill Buford, editor for its first 16 years of its new incarnation, was succeeded by Ian Jack from 1995 until 2007 when the magazine's circulation hit 50,000. Currently being edited out of its New York offices by John Freeman with a controlling interest by publisher Sigrid Rausing of Tetra Pack fame.

This anthology contains some of the best pieces of fiction, memoir and reportage from the magazine's first twenty-one years. Contributors include: Diana Athill, Isaiah Berlin, Bill Buford, Raymond Carver, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, James Fenton, Richard Ford, Martha Gellhorn, Nadine Gordimer, Linda Grant, Ivan Klíma, Hanif Kureishi, Primo Levi, Norman Lewis, Jonathan Miller, Lorrie Moore, Harold Pinter, Salman Rushdie, Josef Škvorecký, Stephen Spender, George Steiner and many more.