In 1936, a young William Saroyan wrote seeking advice from H. L. Mencken, who was then an editor of a magazine, on starting a periodical of his own. Mencken brusquely replied with the following: “Dear ...

Israel is known for all kinds of things — a burgeoning local food scene, TV series like “Homeland” and “In Treatment,” and high tech companies like Waze. Now, with the launch of Granta Israel, a ...

Granta magazine was founded in 1889 by students at Cambridge University as The Granta, a periodical of student politics, badinage and literary enterprise, named after the river that runs through the ...

From increased airport security to strained global diplomacy, the events of 9/11 changed much more than the New York skyline. Granta magazine examines the effects in its new issue, Granta 116: Ten ...

For Americans, September 11 was and remains a deeply personal event. Like few that came before it, the attacks on New York City and Washington D.C. are the kind of events where you will always ...

Since 1979, the year of its rebirth, Granta: The Magazine of New Writing has published many of the world's finest writers on some of the world's most important subjects, from intimate human ...

Granta magazine, the U.S./U.K. literary journal that bills itself as “the magazine of the best new writing from around the world,” continues its series at the Elliott Bay Book Co. this week, ...

Granta Magazine (of New York and London) and Magers & Quinn Booksellers (of Uptown, Minneapolis) will celebrate the release of the latest issue of Granta this month with an evening of lectures, slide ...

GQ: You took over as editor in May 2009. Tell me about the last year for Granta. John Freeman: I think we were in danger of becoming an institution, and the way that Granta made its name, certainly in ...