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Ian Jack

    Ian Jack je skotský novinář, který v letech 1995 až 2007 působil jako šéfredaktor literárního časopisu Granta.

    What We Think of America
    Na Větrné hůrce
    Unbelievable
    Children
    Granta 64
    Celebrity
    • Celebrity

      • 254 stránek
      • 9 hodin čtení
      4,0(2)Ohodnotit

      This edition centres around celebrity, both good and bad. Contributions include: the search for Hitler's doctor; an Irish republican looks at the Queen Kyle Stone; how Hillary Clinton's home views Hillary; and the cannibal emperor of the Central African Republic.

      Celebrity
    • This issue on Russia explores how an old country is finding new ways to think and write. As well as fiction by Russian writers, there is a report on a visit to the once unvisitable Siberia, interviews with the survivors of Stalin's gulag, and a discussion of the place of vodka in Russian culture.

      Granta 64
    • Ah, the darling little ones. According to UN estimates there are now 1.7 billion of them under the age of sixteen, nearly a third of the world's population. In thirty years there will be 2.1 billion. We will go on making them.This issue of Granta describes the rearing, loving, loathing and fearing of them, and evokes what it was like to be that lost personality in a vanished time, a child.

      Children
    • Unbelievable

      Unlikely Ends, Fateful Escapes and the Fascism of Flowers

      3,7(3)Ohodnotit

      We think we like surprises. Shocks, on the other hand, are harder to accept. We lose people. Bad luck, bad judgement, bad habits; fate. They die, they change, they disappear; and sometimes there's a public fuss and sometimes not. Always there are questions (though the answers rarely make a difference). Why did he die? Why did I live? Was the driver drunk? Was the car going too fast? What was she doing there in the first place? Above all: why me?

      Unbelievable
    • Na Větrné hůrce

      • 374 stránek
      • 14 hodin čtení
      4,1(74489)Ohodnotit

      Slavný romantický a dramatický román Emily Brontëové se odehrává v tajuplném prostředí samoty uprostřed mokřin, kam přichází nový nájemce, aby nečekaně prožil strašidelné noční dobrodružství a začal pátrat po osudech nevlídných a drsných obyvatel usedlosti. Objevuje příběh, na jehož počátku stojí nenaplněná láska, cit, jenž jako zhoubný oheň spálil duši a zanechal v ní jenom pustošivou nenávist a celoživotní touhu po pomstě. Heathcliffova neukojitelná krutost po léta ničí životy lidí z usedlosti, pak ale láska, kterou nelze řídit rozumem, znovu zasáhne do osudů hlavních hrdinů.

      Na Větrné hůrce
    • What We Think of America

      • 352 stránek
      • 13 hodin čtení
      3,5(4)Ohodnotit

      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.

      What We Think of America
    • Australia

      • 352 stránek
      • 13 hodin čtení
      2,7(3)Ohodnotit

      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.

      Australia
    • What Young Men Do

      • 288 stránek
      • 11 hodin čtení
      3,7(27)Ohodnotit

      The newest GRANTA annual features an interview with Martha Gellhorn on the subject of marriage; civil war and economic collapse in Indonesia; a photographic essay on Jakarta's last boom; a humorous piece by Todd McEwen on the fetish of high heels; a look at the Northern soul (opposite the Southern soul?); and a timely article entitled "The Mistress", about a young woman entangled in lies.

      What Young Men Do
    • France, the Outsider

      • 254 stránek
      • 9 hodin čtení
      3,5(21)Ohodnotit

      What has happened to France — the universal nation, the tutor of the good life, the place we visited to feel the kiss of a superior civilization? This issue presents fresh new voices from a country searching for a new idea of itself.

      France, the Outsider