Granta 85: Hidden Histories

Granta: The Magazine of New Writing #85

by Ian Jack (Editor)

Repressed personal experiences, neglected battles, forgotten civilizations are offered in Granta 85—an issue that excavates the unfairly buried event, the secret life, the overlooked war. With Diana Athill on losing her baby, Amit Chaudhuri on the Indian tailor who became the face of a riot, Giles Foden on the origins of "The African Queen," plus new fiction by T. C. Boyle and Anne Enright.

Genres: Anthologies, Literature, Fiction

254 pages, Paperback

First published April 15, 2004

About the author

Ian Jack is a British journalist and writer who has edited the Independent on Sunday and the literary magazine Granta and now writes regularly for The Guardian.

Reviews

[Chris · Rating 3 out of 5]

Brian Cathcart's 'The Lives of Brian' was the best thing in this issue.

[Thom · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fantastic writing from all over the world. Sad, funny, and always sharp. This is one of the strongest issues in the journal's past few years.

[Bopha · Rating 3 out of 5]

great read. History from the bottom up. Histories without academic dead weights. Histories with humour and intellegence.

[Ruth · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the best Granta collections I've read.