Granta 24: Inside Intelligence

Granta: The Magazine of New Writing #24

by Bill Buford (Editor)

In 1946, at the age of twenty, Anthony Cavendish infiltrated a ring of arms traders run by ex-Nazi immigrants in Palestine. In 194-, he was was made the ——– officer of —-, the British ——- —— —–. In 194-, he personally oversaw the illegal invasion of ——- that resulted in the deaths of ———– of ————–. In 19–, in ——, Cavendish was personally responsible for monitoring ——– ——–. What did Cavendish finally see that we are not allowed to know now – over forty years later? Plus: Philip Roth, Peter Carey, Tobias Wolff, Bruce Chatwin, E.L. Doctorow, and Jay McInerney.

Genres: Essays

252 pages, Paperback

First published August 2, 1988

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".

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