Granta 93: God's Own Countries

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The politics of religion around the world, featuring: Nadeem Aslam, Diana Athill, Geoff Dyer, Nell Freudenberger, Simon Gray, A L Kennedy, Richard Mabey, John McGahern, Andrew Martin, Pankaj Mishra, Blake Morrison, Alison Smith, Lucretia Stewart - on their personal experiences - close, baffling, acrimonious or non-existent - of the divine An interview with Orhan Pamuk; Wendell Steavenson in Iraq;Andrew Brown among in Sweden;Jackie Kay on meeting her father for the first time;John Borneman on fathers and sons in Syria; Kees Beekmans in the 'black schools' of Amsterdam. Plus new fiction by Gary Shteyngart, Karen Russell and Kamran Nazeer. And a photo-essay by David Graham: Acts of God.

Ian Jack has edited Granta since 1995. He began his career in journalism on a weekly newspaper in Scotland in the 1960s. Between 1970 and1986 he worked for the Sunday Times as a reporter, editor, feature writer and foreign correspondent (mainly in the Indian Subcontinent). He was a co-founder of the Independent on Sunday in 1989 and edited that newspaper between 1991 and 1995. His awards in Britain include those for reporter, journalist and editor of the year. A book of his writing about Britain, Before the Oil Ran Out, was published by Secker and Warburg in 1987 and republished by Vintage in 1997. He lives with his family in London.