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...Khan and his partners, who include former Granta editor Ian Jack, first had to lay down the journal's parameters. "The concept of Asia is tricky because it's an idea as much as a geographical area," says Chris Wood, who took on the role of the ALR's editor in chief in 2007. "We asked ourselves, Can we actually call ourselves the Asia Literary Review? What are our boundaries? Do we include Constantinople, Australia? Do we limit ourselves to Asians writing about Asia?" In the end, the ALR decided not to opt for a mission statement but to keep...
...model! Or has hisstatue come to life? Although the alabaster-white woman has fiery red humanhair, she’s without nipples. The paintingbehind them, though, looks rather impressionist.The confusion! What timeperiod will this work actually take placein? Maybe that’s the question the philosophermust answer.The New Granta Book of the AmericanShort Story, by Richard FordIf the book has “American” in thetitle, it must have Old Glory on the cover—that’s a given. But why stick with theclichéd image of an actual flag flying inthe wind...
...Granta magazine’s “Best Young Novelists,” Uzodinma C. Iweala ’04, is venturing to Columbia’s medical school next year. But he has no plans to stop writing. “My next book is non-fiction, about HIV/AIDS, so I need to mature as a writer before I tackle something more difficult,” he said. Iweala’s first novel, “Beasts of No Nation,” is the fictional story of a child soldier in an unnamed West African country...
Smith was a Radcliffe Institute Fellow at Harvard from 2002 to 2003, and the latter year Granta named her one of the top 20 young British novelists...
...Granta, a well-respected literary magazine, is proud to celebrate its 25th anniversary. Editor Ian Jack will read works from this milestone issue, along with Pankaj Mishra and Gary Shteyngart. Free. 6:30 p.m. Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts...