Granta 16: Science

Granta: The Magazine of New Writing #16

by Bill Buford (Editor)

Essays discuss personality disorders, breast cancer, the behavior of tortoises, the Star Wars project, attitudes toward nuclear war, and the political situations in Nicaragua and Poland

Genres: Science, Essays, Nonfiction

256 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1985

About the author

William Holmes Buford is an American author and journalist. He is the author of the books Among the Thugs and Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany. Buford was previously the fiction editor for The New Yorker, where he is still on staff. For sixteen years, he was the editor of Granta, which he relaunched in 1979. He is also credited with coining the term "dirty realism".

Reviews

[Victoria & David Williams]

A goodly assortment of essays and fiction.
I had forgotten how amazing Tim O'Brian's writing can be.