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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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IAN JACK edited Granta from 1995 to 2007, having previously edited the Independent on Sunday. He has written on many subjects, including the Titanic, Kathleen Ferrier, the Hatfield train crash and the three members of the IRA active-service unit who were killed on Gibraltar. He is the editor of The Granta Book of Reportage and The Granta Book of India, and the author of a collection of journalism, The Country Formerly Known as Great Britain. He lives in London and now writes for the Guardian.
Granta's ads boast that more of its copies are stolen from mailboxes than any other periodical, and this selection of 13 articles proves its attraction to literary-minded kleptos. The thief must also covet a unique way of writing about events international, whether they are the op{‚}era bouffe "Soccer War" between El Salvador and Honduras, the Tiananmen massacre, or 10 other conflicts. This is reporting that tunnels beneath the headlines to do either of two things: find the truth of the matter or present the journalist's frankly subjective views in a free and creative way. In the latter regard, one pro-Viet Cong stringer describes his initially supportive reaction to Saigon's "liberation," Germaine Greer extolls what socialism has done for women in Cuba (albeit 10 years ago), and a white Britisher upbraids his racial feelings during the L.A. riots. In the former regard of investigative reporting, John le Carr{‚}e leaves fiction for fact in delving into a Swiss officer's reasons for spying for the Soviets, and in the grittiest, most fact-filled article, a Scots journalist reconstructs the last hours and minutes of life for three IRA terrorists killed by British soldiers on Gibralter in 1988. A variegated collection of big names and not-yet big names from a British magazine of rising repute. Gilbert Taylor
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- PublisherGrove Press, Granta
- Publication date2007
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