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This issue of "Granta" celebrates Australian writing and examines a country which is forging a strong new identity. The contributors include Peter Carey, Thomas Keneally, Les Murray and Tim Winton. There are picture essays by Polly Borland and David Moore, and a novella by Ben Rice.

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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 needed to be made. You might call it necessary travel writing.

In this issue, writers from across the world describe how America has affected them - culturally, politically, economically, as citizens, as writers, as children and as adults, for better or worse.

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Granta goes to the movies

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Granta celebrates mothers.

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'Quite simply, the most impressive literary magazine of its time.' - Daily Telegraph (UK)

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Country Life: how it is lived, how it has changed, and how the changes are far from over

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Another fine anthology: Simon Gray on the life and death of Alan Bates, plus The Weather Where We Are featuring Margaret Atwood, Tom Keneally, James Hamilton Paterson and many others

Features articles by: Tim Parks, on the joys of commuting from Verona to Milan every day; Christopher de Bellaigue, on tracking down the Armenians in Turkey; Jeremy Treglown, following in the footsteps of V. S. Pritchett in Spain; Jeremy Seabrook, on being separated from his twin; and, Todd McEwen, on Cary Grant's trousers.

Granta has aimed to publish the best of contemporary fiction, memoir, reportage and travel. This anthology takes 21 landmark pieces from each of the magazine's 21 years bringing together classic pieces from its past.

In this assured and inventive debut collection, Wagner's haunting short stories range across space and time. From the solitary astronomer, whose desperation for another's touch leads to destruction, to the Pharaoh's daughter who sees her own death rising inexorably before her.

An expos of the oil industry's cover-up of a diminishing oil supply that paints a bleak picture of the future in which the price of oil skyrockets, economies and communities shudder worldwide, and the globe must move to renewable source to give it power.

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A powerful antidote to our atomised lives, Hello, Stranger delves into humanity's rich history of welcoming (and worrying about) strangers, to show us how being more open might end the loneliness epidemic, solve the migrant crisis and change the world.

Unconventional biography of Hercules charting his life from his dramatic birth in Thebes to his agonising death on a flaming pyre

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A revelatory Alpine journey in the spirit of the great Romantic thinker Friedrich Nietzsche.

'Hope Dies Last will live a long, long time in the memory of everyone who reads it. Like all of Studs Terkel's work, this book glows with human warmth and an unquenchable passion for justice' Barbara Ehrenreich

Gabriel Dan is a former soldier in the Austrian army who returns from a Siberian prison camp, some time after World War I. He arrives in an unnamed town that might be in Poland, and lodges at the Hotel Savoy. The owner is absent, the guests are deranged, and murder and chaos ensue.

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The first ever global overview of philosophy: how it developed around the world and impacted the cultures in which it flourished.

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How to read and get the most out of the work of Thomas Aquinas.

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Michel Foucault shaped the way we think today about such controversial issues as power, sexuality, madness and criminality.

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Mark A. Wrathall unpacks Heidegger's dense prose, and guides the reader through Heidegger's early concern with the nature of human existence, to his later preoccupation with the threat that technology poses to our ability to live worthwhile lives.