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An anthology of private memory, including Lynn Barber on her close encounter with bigamy, Zoe Heller on her father's lovers, and Simon Gray on absent friends. Plus new fiction from J. Robert Lennon and Nell Freudenberger.

How do you cope with the great, if you yourself are not so great? Do you speak, do you listen, in the face of every difficulty do you try to please? The sensible thing to do is keep a diary. Irish poet Richard Murphy remembers his experiences with Auden, J.R. Ackerley and Theodore Roethke.

There was always the - is this it? - issue. It made him think of his father again. His father had been a New Yorker and had New Yorker ways. His father always felt there should be more, more for Henry and his brothers. More than they had. To accept, to not overreach, was to accept defeat.

Some travel is vital to the traveller. Sometimes you need to get home or get away. Sometimes this is far from easy. This issue of Granta contains compelling stories about journeys which need to be made. You might call it necessary travel writing.

This issue examines the experience from the patient's couch and the psychiatrist's chair, in both fiction and non-fiction. The contributors include Elliot Perlman, Patrick McGrath, Edmund White and Ved Mehta.

In 1966, the South African premier, Hendrik Verwoerd was stabbed to death in the South African parliament. Who was the killer and what was his motives? A political enemy of the system? A madman?

This issue reflects a variety of the extreme individual experience provided by the 20th century. James Hamilton-Paterson recounts his rape by five men in Libya; Marlon Brando reveals the stupidities of celebrity to Studs Terkel; and Andrew Brown describes the death of God in the Church of England.

In this issue of Granta Magazine, the theme is the sea and our relationship with it. It includes pieces by: James Hamilton-Paterson, on a lonely death in the Pacific; Julia Blackburn, on the lure of the mermaid; Neal Ascherson, on the death of the Black Sea; and Haruki Murakami.

In this edition of the Granta magazine, Richard Lloyd Parry reports on the savage civil war taking place in Indonesia and Nicholas Shakespeare writes on Martha Gelhorn and why she hated her husband, Ernest Hemingway.

The third in the Best of Young British Novelists series, which revealed the emerging literary landscape of a new millenium.

Contains dispatches from the world of conflict, in the battlefield and in the home, including: James Buchan on Iran's nuclear weapons programme; Jasmina Tesanovic on the death squads of Serbia; Hugh Raffles on cricket-fighting in Shanghai; and fiction by Tahmima Anam and Edmund White.

Contains: Richard Ford interviewed by Tim Adams: the aftermath of Dirty Realism; Owen Sheers on the consequences of Christmas Island's nuclear past; Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on the death of her high-school sweetheart; and Katya Krausova on the survivors of the Slovakian Holocaust.

Published in book form four times a year, Granta is respected around the world for its mix of outstanding new fiction, poetry, reportage, memoir, photography and art.

In this issue, writers from across the world describe how America has affected them - culturally, politically, economically, as citizens, as writers, as children and as adults, for better or worse.

Looks at the nature of love: it can be hard to love the people we should love; sometimes objects of affection are easier. This issue includes an account of a boyhood spent caring for a father with Parkinson's Disease ('Who are you?'), Jeremy Seabrook on the twin brother he hardly knew, and Sean Wilsey on his devotion to bicycles.

Not so much the state we're in as the mess we're getting into. Reports and stories from the frontiers of climate change and environmental (and human) catastrophe.

Repressed personal experiences, neglected battles, forgotten civilisations: an issue of Granta that excavates the unfairly buried event, the secret life, the overlooked.

Contains writing from people whose experience of life suggests they have something to tell us about survival.

Features the work by the twenty writers that Granta's judges - including novelists Edmund White and AM Homes - have selected as the most interesting young voices in American fiction.

Features articles by: Tim Parks, on the joys of commuting from Verona to Milan every day; Christopher de Bellaigue, on tracking down the Armenians in Turkey; Jeremy Treglown, following in the footsteps of V. S. Pritchett in Spain; Jeremy Seabrook, on being separated from his twin; and, Todd McEwen, on Cary Grant's trousers.

The politics of religion around the world