Granta 91 Wish You Were Here Author:Ian Jack (Editor) The Magazine of New Writing — Thoughts about Alan While Waiting for Harold, by Simon Gray — The author of the celebrated and widely-acclaimed The Smoking Diaries returns to print with a tender, affecting, and of course funny account of his friendship with Alan Bates, written as he waits in Barbados for Harold Pinter to turn up. — PLUS: Said Sayrafi... more »ezadeh on the perils of having a socialist for a father, Simon Garfield on his obsession with faulty postage stamps, and Wayne McLennan on the Australian outback's last boxing nomads.
And Margaret Atwood, James Hamilton-Paterson, James Lasdun, Orhan Pamuk, Maarten 't Hart and Tim Winton on our changing weather.
With new fiction by Frederic Tuten and Gllad Evron, and a picture essay by Robin Grierson.« less