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In this selection from over twenty years of reporting and writing, Ian Jack sets out to deal with contemporary Britain - from national disasters to football matches to obesity - but is always drawn back in time, vexed by the question of what came first.

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The world's most complicated nation is learning ways to describe itself. The novel and the outsider's eye no longer rule.

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A celebrated writer makes an anonymous confession and defends a habit: his son supplies him with Ecstasy. Other contributors include Nicholas Shakespeare on the evil of his ancestors, David Feuer on trying to be a shrink in a community of the Hasidim, and new fiction from A.M. Holmes and Judith Hermann.

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With contributions from Robyn Davidson, Nik Cohn, Hugo Williams and many more.

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This edition is a fiction special and includes new short stories by Rachel Cusk, Edmund White and Jonathan Ley.

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This edition centres around celebrity, both good and bad. Contributions include: the search for Hitler's doctor; an Irish republican looks at the Queen Kyle Stone; how Hillary Clinton's home views Hillary; and the cannibal emperor of the Central African Republic.

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Everybody has been a reluctant or willing member of one: the family, the school, the football side, the quiz team, the once-faithful friends who met in a bar every Friday at five. Group photographs are their souvenir - frozen moments of a previous way of living, and of liking or disliking the people who shared it.

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Not so much the state we're in as the mess we're getting into.

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Reportage, fiction and opinion from outsiders in America, and Americans on themselves.

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

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A celebration of Granta's first quarter century with new writing from the writers who made its reputation, including Martin Amis, Paul Auster, William Boyd, Amit Chaudhul, Richard Ford, James Hamilton-Paterson, Jan Morris, Blake Morrison, Jayne Anne Phillips, Paul Theroux and Edmund White.

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The politics of religion around the world

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It can be hard to love the people we should love; sometimes objects of affection are easier

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Dispatches from the world of conflict, on the battlefield and off of it.

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Who will be the great American novelists of the future

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