Granta 41: Biography

By Gabriel García Márquez, Richard Holmes, Louise Erdrich, Ian Hamilton, John Banville, Bill Buford, Todd MCEWEN, LORNA SAGE, James Atlas, BLAKE MORRISON, Andrew MOTION, Saul Bellow, Luc Sante

Is it merely a form of gossip (the affairs, the drinking, the public rows) or does it satisfy an important curiosity? Saul Bellow (on his father), James Atlas (on Saul Bellow), Gabriel Garca Mrquez...

And When Did You Last See Your Father?

By BLAKE MORRISON, Blake Morrison, Morrison, Blake, 1950-

This is Blake Morrison's memoir of his father, a story of loss, love and death, and the familiar "domineering old sod" that we recognize from so many of the books about fathers by their sons - Edmu...

Big Men (And L.A. Women) (Granta 51, Autumn 1995)

By Harold Pinter, BLAKE MORRISON, John Sweeney, Andrea Ashworth, Clive Sinclair, Caroline Alexander, Edward Blishen, Claire Messud, Bill Buford, Lindsey Hilsum, Will Hobson, Douglas Brooker

Big as in substantial, powerful, famous; men as in weak, wicked, and notorious. Gitta Sereny on Albert Speer, the tyrant as survivor; Caroline Alexander on the classical tyrant, Hastings Banda; And...

Big Men

By Harold Pinter, Bill Buford, BLAKE MORRISON, John Sweeney, Andrea Ashworth, Clive Sinclair, Caroline Alexander, Edward Blishen, Claire Messud, Lindsey Hilsum, Will Hobson, Douglas Brooker

Big as in substantial, powerful, famous; men as in weak, wicked, and notorious. Gitta Sereny on Albert Speer, the tyrant as survivor; Caroline Alexander on the classical tyrant, Hastings Banda; And...

Granta

By Martin Amis, John Sutherland, Brigid Brophy, Raymond Carver, BLAKE MORRISON, Nicole Ward Jouve, Kenneth Bernard, Bill., GUY DAVENPORT, Walter Abish, David Caute, Per Gedin, Patricia Hampl, Mario Vargas Llosa, Lisa Zeidner, Buford, Bill Buford, Eric Burns

In this issue, arguments for the future of publishing by Brigid Brophy, John Sutherland, David Caute, Blake Morrison, Per Gedin, David Godine and Walter Abish. Also, fiction from Martin Amis, Guy D...

The Penguin Book Of Contemporary British Poetry

By BLAKE MORRISON, Andrew MOTION, Blake Morrison And Andrew Motion

Edited By Blake Morrison And Andrew Motion.

Things My Mother Never Told Me

By BLAKE MORRISON, Blake Morrison

In And When Did You Last See Your Father?, Blake Morrison's Mother Remains An Intriguing But Mostly Silent Figure. One Of The Many Things She Never Quite Told Him Was That Before Becoming Kim Morri...

British Poetry Since 1970: A Critical Survey

By Donald Davie, Alan Young, Michael Schmidt, Thom Gunn, BLAKE MORRISON, Peter Jones, Deborah Mitchell, Neil Powell, Peter Austin Jones

The Poetry Of R.s. Thomas -- The Strict Temperature Of Classicism -- Walls Of Glass -- Donald Davie -- Being Different From Yourself -- Chales Tomlinson -- Definition And Flow -- Ted Hughes -- The...

Granta 76: Music

By Amit Chaudhuri, Richard Williams, Greil MARCUS, Alan Rusbridger, Michael Collins, Nik Cohn, BLAKE MORRISON, Nicholson Baker, Richard Sennett, David Oates, Robyn Davidson, Julian Barnes, John Ryle, Janice Galloway, Mark Holborn, PHILIP HENSHER, Ian Jack, Ian (Ed.) Jack

Published in the U.S. since 1979, Granta is a handsomely illustrated paperback featuring outstanding articles that illustrate a theme. The Music issue examines how music is made and what it means...

A Discoverie Of Witches

By BLAKE MORRISON, Blake Morrison