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Book review: Granta 138/Journeys

Granta`s offering for the yet-to-arrive winter of 2017, Journeys, juxtaposes a fine set of travel writings with brief succint takes on whether travel writing is dead,  by the likes of Ian Jack, Colin Thubron, Pico Iyer, Samanth Subramanian, Geoff Dyer, Mohsin Hamid and co. The writings run the gamut of stories, essays, observations, photographs,  the…

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Book review: Are We Related? The New Granta Book of the Family

  All in the family Are We Related ? /The New Granta Book of the Family/Edited by Liz Jobey is a 2009 book but I only just came across it. And I’m so glad I did. Two out of three people belong to difficult families and if one of these two happens to be a…

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