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Granta 116 (2011)

by Granta: The Magazine of New Writing(Favorite Author)

3.87 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1905881355 (ISBN13: 9781905881352)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Granta Books

series

Granta

review 1: A great perspective on those who fought or lived through the Afghani and Iraqi wars of the past 10 years. I found the poems very moving and very real. The non-fiction writing is vividly descriptive of a world many of us will never know: the Middle East. Like Americans portrayed throughout Granta's various stories, many of us do not want to know about the wars being fought "over there". These essays bring it home. Though tragic, in the end I found myself wanting to read more.I enjoyed almost everything, especially "Redeployment", "The Terminal Check", "Veterans of a Foreign War" and the amazing,"The American Age, Iraq". Not impressed with Nicole Krauss' story, whose books I haven't enjoyed either.This is an observation and a tinge of criticism. Although I haven't read an i... moressue in a while, Granta never fails to remind the reader that it is a liberal, UK-based publication and the writings typically trail an unmistakable whiff of anti-American/anti-Israeli sentiment. Sometimes it's refreshing, but more often, as an American Jew, it is irritating that this sentiment is pitched over and over again.
review 2: Granta's latest issue, focused the ten year anniversary of the attacks of September 2001. the issue number, 116, on the back cover when inverted reads 911. I found Phil Klay's "Redeployment" moving. Pieces like "Jihad Redux" by Declan Walsh and "The American Age, Iraq" by Anthony Shadid provide some history to the debacleswe find ourselves in. (yes, we probably could have handled things differently.)I enjoyed Adam Johnson's "The Third Mate". While I didn't like the writing so much, Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer's "Laikas I" had moments of engaging imagination.Ten Years Later did well to include a goodly selection of pieces from writers in the lands for which 9/11 brought a state of war. less

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