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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'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.

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In a collection that owes more to the spirit of Madonna than the Blessed Virgin, O'Connell takes the dusty icons down from the shelves and sets their spirits loose in the modern world.

(, Special, Anniversary)

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A new essay collection by the noted Polish poet.

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There's an activist in all of us, and you don't have to shout about it to be heard. In Small World, Big Ideas, Satish Kumar collects the voices of some of the most passionate activists fighting for a better world, and shares their insights into how we can achieve this.

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Completing a quartet of volumes comes this comforting and tranquil collection of poems, prayers, hymns, songs and prose on the subject of peace. Covering personal peace and the wider aspects of social and world peace, this anthology follows the tradition of all Fiona's collections.

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A brilliant and thrilling memoir of a dangerous and disorienting year of self-discovery in the Congo, set against the backdrop of the explosively violent 2006 elections.

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A selection of Edgar Allan Poe's best tales and poems.

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An inspirational gift book full of advice written in six-word installments, building off of Smith's popular Six-Words platform and the success of his previous Six-Word books

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Major writers through the centuries have turned their minds to the subject of books, often with humour, sometimes with exasperation, always with affection. This essential anthology for bibliophiles offers a rich selection of musings on the virtues of libraries, books and 'the pleasant smell of paper freshly pressed.'

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Roth's novellas and short stories are considered by some to rank with Chekhov's and Kafka's as among the greatest of the twentieth century. Each of these short works conjures characters and an entire world with breathtaking concision.

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A selecton of key pieces from Edward Said's works, including his groundbreaking 1966 study of Joseph Conrad and the influential Orientalism, to the critically acclaimed memoir Out of Place.

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Companion volume to The Granta Book of the American Short Story: Volume 1.

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This collection of stories captures the timeless quality of the oral tradition from coastal New South Wales and the Riverina into Victoria. Endorsed by the Burraga Aboriginal History and Writing Group, the stories include creation stories and cosmological insights.

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Presents a sequence of sea novels set in the early nineteenth century, about a voyage from England to Australia.