Granta has come to define a genre of modern literary journals: great and often famous writers tackling topics of immense importance, whether they be the vicissitudes of intimate human emotions and relationships, or major public and political events - or a combination of the two.
That qualityand diversity are represented here - in what must have been an agonisingly difficult selection - by writers as exciting as Raymond Carver, Nadine Gordimer, Primo Levi, Salman Rushdie, Martha Gellhorn and many more. A wonderful addition to the bedside table.
