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While the world looked the other way, Sri Lanka's Tamils, civilians and rebels alike, were systematically and pitilessly attacked by their own government for five relentless months. Survivors of the devastation tell their stories of sacrifice, cruelty and bravery

Two mid-ranking North London detectives, tasked with connecting a series of scattered and gruesome events, come to suspect the only certainty is that we've all misunderstood everything

Edward Said's classic treatise on the role of the intellectual and the goal of criticism, which encompasses the great thinkers and writers of the last 200 years.

A compilation of 35 years' worth of critical essays from one of the boldest and most articulate cultural theorists of our time

An extraordinary group portrait of London today: a book as rich, dynamic, lively, and diverse as the city itself.

A funny, tender look at the ways your parents can disrupt your life and the pains of adolescence

The Safety of Objects, A.M. Homes' first collection of short stories, displays the flair for the hilarious, the perverse and the extraordinary that characterizes all of her books.

In this collection of stories, a woman pursues an unconventional strategy for getting pregnant; a former First Lady shows despair and courage in dealing with her husband's Alzheimer's; and adult tragedy intrudes into a childhood friendship.

In "Reading Chekhov" Janet Malcolm takes on three roles: literary critic, biographer and journalist. Her close readings of the stories and plays are interwoven with episodes from Chekhov's life and framed by an account of a recent journey she made to St Petersburg.

This issue takes a wayward look at the lives of beasts. A dog prepares for the death of his master; a movie-going tarantula has a crush on Nicole Kidman; and a raven learns to speak Spanish. Photography of China's new young women and the streets of New York also features.

One of our greatest contemporary authors writes about sex, school and adolescence in 1970s small-town Scotland.

The long overdue first UK publication of one of Sven Lindqvist's best-loved books - and the one for which he is most famous in his home country - an exquisitely written meditation on the author's relationship with art.

A magical exploration of the ancient landscape of forests and the ancient genre of fairytales, drawing fascinating and surprising connections between the two, by the author of the bestselling A Book Of Silence

A classic in the making and an unparalleled insight into life in Siberia and its various communities and tribes.

Ben Marcus's highly anticipated new short story collection - his first since his extraordinary debut The Age of Wire and String

This is a story of dispossession, a meditation on place, home and identity, as well as a deeply personal account of the social ills of South Africa and the triumph of its people

Twenty years after the siege of Sarajevo, BBC Samuel Johnson Prize winner Barbara Demick revisits her compelling account of living in a city under fire.

An epic, involving and exquisitely told story of inheritance and chance as it plays out in one family, across one century and four generations.

A ground-breaking portrait of the way our society treats some of its most disadvantaged members, Quarmby's book is the first to examine the roots of our uncomfortable and often hostile attitudes towards disabled people, and to argue for greater official recognition of these crimes as hate crimes.

Collected here are superb new translations of the finest tales - from the founding master of Russian surreal allegory and irony

Shortlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize, deWitt's dazzlingly original second novel is a darkly funny, offbeat western about a reluctant assassin and his murderous brother.

'In this entertaining, educative and gracefully written book, Julian Baggini explores the questions of the nature of the self and in what sense it persists through time ... This is one of the best, most readable and most stimulating introductions yet written about this intriguing topic' - AC Grayling

A dazzling second novel from the author whose debut was compared to Sarah Waters and Daphne Du Maurier and won her tens of thousands of readers ...

An evocative and moving debut novel - based on the true story of the worst UK civilian disaster of the Second World War, when 173 people were crushed to death at Bethnal Green tube station during the Blitz.

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.

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.

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 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.