Granta 100

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The 100th issue of Granta , guest edited by the acclaimed British novelist William Boyd, features original work by many of the writers who have helped to make it the most widely read literary magazine in the world Contributors include Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, Ian McEwan, A. M. Homes, John le Carré, Doris Lessing, Jayne Anne Phillips, Harold Pinter, Nicholas Shakespeare, Helen Simpson, and Mario Vargas Llosa. The issue also includes new pieces by its former editors, Bill Buford and Ian Jack, and original photographs of many of the writers by Bruce Frankel and Carolin Seeliger.

Solly and Lark / Jayne Anne Phillips --
Poem / Harold Pinter --
On buying a clavichord / James Fenton --
My question for myself / Carolin Seeliger and Tobias Wenzel --
My question for myself / Zadie Smith --
How snow falls / Craig Raine --
Something to tell you / Hanif Kureishi --
Three character sketches / Mario Vargas Llosa --
My question for myself / Jonathan Franzen --
From the flood plain / Jamie McKendrick --
In-flight entertainment / Helen Simpson --
My question for myself / Hans Magnus Enzensberger --
Eel tail / Alice Oswald --
The serampur scotch / Ian Jack --
For you / Ian McEwan --
The unknown known / Martin Amis --
Turn of the century / Bruce Frankel --
Human safari / Lucy Eyre --
Highlights / Alan Holinghurst --
My question for myself / Isabel Allende --
Jewelweed / Ashley Capps --
Chickens and eggs / Doris Lessing --
My question for myself / Gary Shteyngart --
End of the pier show / Michael Hofmann --
Greenland / Isabel Hilton --
To the city / Tash Aw --
My question for myself / Marie NDiaye --
The swing / Don Paterson --
Heraclitus / Salman Rushdie --
The white hole of Bombay / Nicholas Shakespeare --
My question for myself / Richard Ford The joy of difficulty / Lavina Greenlaw --
Estonia, out in the country / Ingo Schulze --
My question for myself / Gao Xingjian --
17 Melbourne Road / Oliver Reynolds --
Marriage lines / Julian Barnes --
May we be forgiven / A.M. Homes --
Pie-kah / Helen Oyeyemi --
Somewhere the wave / Derek Mahon