Jan Pieńkowski, whose mischievous visuals illuminated the lives of millions of children, has died at the age of 85. He was best known as the illustrator of the best-selling Meg &… Read more »

As noted by several literary news agencies, including The Bookseller, the British Library has acquired the archives of Granta, the 130 year-old taste making literary journal and publisher. And its not just back issues of… Read more »

I first came across Diana Athill when I worked at Granta in the early noughties. Shortly after the publication of Stet: An Editor’s Life, and as a publishing newbie, I… Read more »

Since 2009, VIDA: Women in Literary Arts has been compiling data on the representation of women in literary publications and book reviews. Since 2016, they have also been tracking various… Read more »

On Friday, Granta’s online editor, Ted Hodgkinson, announced via Twitter that he was leaving the company to join the British Council. Hodgkinson had been at Granta for the last three… Read more »

The “shit storm” continues. Yesterday, The Bookseller reported that two more Granta employees, sales and marketing director Brigid Macleod and sales manager Sharon Murphy, would be leaving the company and… Read more »

On Wednesday, I wrote about the weird closed-mouth policy at Granta regarding the magazine’s month-long spate of high-level departures. Well, yesterday the Guardian’s Alison Flood got a bunch of people… Read more »

A month ago, Granta announced that editor John Freeman was leaving to teach creative writing at Columbia University. Three weeks ago, it was reported that the New York office would be… Read more »

Last week, it was announced that John Freeman is leaving his role as editor of Granta after five years at the journal to teach at Columbia University. Yesterday it came out that… Read more »

While the response to Granta’s latest crop of “Best of Young British Novelists” has been largely positive—the list has been widely and deservedly praised for its diversity—comments made by the… Read more »