Granta (8 books in series)
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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 t...
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review 1: was inspired to read Granta 124: Travel (2013) becuse of the general theme of travel and the fact that it contained pieces by three of my favorite contemporary writers: Rattawut Lapcharoen, Dave Eggers, and Haruki Murakami. That being said I was disappointed by all of them save M...
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review 1: The picture on the front cover is the best thing about this edition of Granta. It was a cynical attempt to woo new subscribers. They still use this edition in adverts, even though it's quite old now. Oh, and there was a recent twist on this idea called The F Word. Disappointingly...
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review 1: More non-fiction than I expected, but I also thought that the title "Aliens" meant space aliens, not strangers in a strange land aliens. Many of the non-fiction pieces were interesting reads, but none were particularly outstanding. Mostly long-form, magazine-style, personal essay...
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review 1: Granta can be a bit of a mixed bag, and sometimes it's rather like those slightly disappointing lucky dip bags where you ended up with a plastic whistle and a gobstopper, but this is one of the best. Maybe it's the subject matter: we may live in a post-feminist age, but there are...
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review 1: The autumn 2010 issue of this quarterly periodical from the UK features pieces about Pakistan, most by Pakistanis. The cover artwork is strikingly colorful and arresting. The writings vary from works of fiction to poetry, visual art, history, and current affairs. I was entranc...
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review 1: Let's cut to the chase: Will Self can be a bit overbearing in his stylistic excess, but the essay he offers here held my interest and made me consider giving his nonfiction a go. Paul Auster is always worth reading and this piece was no exception, really liked his way of describi...
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review 1: This is an uneven collection that includes (in my opinion) just a few standout pieces. It looks to me like a number of authors "mailed it in" for a check: I'm looking at you Tao Lin. By far the best submission was Hiromi Kawakami's Blue Moon, in which she ruminates on her morta...