The Paris Review Book for Planes, Trains, Elevators, and Waiting Rooms is the ultimate, and perfect, theme-anthology. It's theme is the reader. Everyday we must [...]

Richard Ford, one of the finest American novelists and short story writers, introduced the first "Granta Book of the American Short Story", which Granta published [...]

Richard Ford, who is among the finest of American novelists and short story writers, edits and introduces this volume. First published by Granta in 1992, [...]

For as long as people have been writing, they have been writing about nature. But economic migration, overpopulation and climate change are transforming the natural [...]

The business of making things is becoming a memory for much of the western world – the very business that once gave mastery over the [...]

This collection of short stories, including many new translations, is the first to span the whole of Japan's modern era from the end of the [...]

This year's selection includes William Langewiesche's probing investigation in Vanity Fair of the slaughter of twenty-four Iraqis in Haditha; C. J. Chivers's chilling account in [...]

This anthology is in many ways a 'best of the best', containing gems from thirty-four of Britain's outstanding contemporary writers. It is a book to [...]

An anthology for AIDS charities, featuring Gabriel García Marquez, Margaret Atwood, John Updike, Susan Sontag, Hanif Kureishi and José Saramago.

Rarely have so many writers [...]