John Freeman

In this latest issue of Granta, writers meditate on these essential questions from an exciting array of vantage points. Nic Dunlop writes of Pol Pot's chief executioner, Comrade Duch, the first ever Khmer Rouge to go on trial for war crimes, and the only one to date who has confessed to the brutal killings. Owen Sheers returns to Zimbabwe and the memories of family who lived there, witnessing how the country has changed in the past decade.

Pakistan is a nation in crisis. It is also at the forefront of a literary renaissance. Granta 112: Pakistan seizes this moment to present unusual perspectives and hard-hitting reportage on one of the most discussed nations today. Nadeem Aslam''s novella Leila in the Wilderness leads the issue. Aslam tells the story of a young bride who is imprisoned by her husband and his mother, and is brutally punished each time she gives birth to a baby girl. But what happens when a mosque - built by angels? - mysteriously appears on a disputed island on the river? The issue also includes reports on Kashmir, campaigning among the Pashtun, Pakistan''s founding father Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the search for a Sheedi shrine and Pakistani pop idols from Basharat Peer, Declan Walsh, Jane Perlez, Lorraine Adams with Ayesha Nasir, Fatima Bhutto and Kamila Shamsie. Bold short fiction by Mohsin Hamid, Mohammed Hanif, Uzma Aslam Khan and introducing Jamil Ahmad explores love and violence. Sarfraz Manzoor, Intizar Hussain and Aamer Hussein remember London and Pakistan. The established Pashto poet Hasina Gul and up-and- coming Urdu poet Yasmeen Hameed appear here, along with the first published poem by short story master Daniyal Mueenuddin. In a special collaboration with arts organization Green Cardamom, Granta 112''s visual essay showcases a range of new talent from the unequivocal political commentary of Ayesha Jatoi to the meditative, somewhat spiritual installations of Imran Qureshi. With a striking cover by Pakistani truck artist Islam Gull. Like the magazine''s issues on India and Australia, Granta 112 is a critical watershed. It is also a celebration of the corona of talent writing in Sindhi, Urdu, Punjabi, Pashto and English which has burst onto the English-language publishing world.

In "Poems New and Old," John Freeman presents a compelling collection that beautifully melds the personal with the universal, reflecting on themes of identity, memory, and the passage of time. Freemans distinctive voice exhibits a lyrical quality interspersed with moments of stark honesty, inviting readers into a contemplative space where language becomes both a refuge and a battleground. This anthology not only showcases his evolution as a poet but also positions his work within the rich tradition of contemporary American poetry, echoing influences from both the confessional poets and modernist sensibilities. John Freeman, a renowned poet and editor, has long been a vital force in the literary world, contributing significantly to contemporary discourse on poetry and its place in society. His diverse experiences, from editorial roles at prestigious literary journals to travels that have informed his worldview, have fostered a profound understanding of human emotions and connections. Freemans previous works have received critical acclaim, stemming from his commitment to exploring the intricacies of existence and the complexities of modern life, providing a fertile ground for the poems contained within this volume. For readers seeking a thoughtful exploration of both personal and collective narratives, "Poems New and Old" is an essential addition to any poetry lovers library. With its rich imagery and insightful reflections, Freemans latest work promises to resonate with anyone longing for a deeper understanding of themselves and the world around them, making it a must-read for both avid and novice poetry fans.

Day by day, tweet by tweet, it often feels like our world is run on hate. Invective. Cruelty and sadism. But is it possible the greatest and most powerful force is love? In the newest issue of this acclaimed series, FreemansLove asks this question, bringing together literary heavyweights like Richard Russo, Anne Carson, Sandra Cisneros, Louise Erdrich, Haruki Murakami, Tommy Orange and Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk alongside emerging writers such as Andres Felipe Solano and Semezdin Mehmedinovic.Together, the pieces comprise a stunning exploration of the complexities of love, tracing it from its earliest stirrings, to the forbidden places where it emerges against reason, to loss so deep it changes the color of perception. In a time of contentiousness and flagrant abuse, this issue promises what only love can bring: a balm of complexity and warmth.

Over the course of ten years, Freemans has introduced the English-speaking world to countless writers of international import and acclaim, from Olga Tokarczuk to Valeria Luiselli, while also spotlighting brilliant writers working in English, from Tommy Orange to Tess Gunty. Now, in its last issue, this unique literary project ponders all the ways of reaching a fitting conclusion.For Sayaka Murata, keeping up with the comings and goings of fashion and its changing emotional landscapes can mean being left behind, and in her poem Amenorrhea Julia Alverez experiences the end of the line as menopause takes hold. Yet sometimes an end is merely a beginning, as Barry Lopez meditates while walking through the snowy Oregonian landscapes. While Chinelo Okparantas story Fatu confronts the end of a relationship under the spectre of new life, other writers look towards aging as an opportunity for rebirth, such as Honoree Fanonne Jeffers, who takes on the role of being her own elder, comforting herself in the ways that her grandmother used to. Finally, in his comic story Everyone at Dinner Has a Max Von Sydow Story, Dave Eggers suggests that sometimes stories dont have neat or clean endings - that sometimes the middle is enough.With new writing from Sandra Cisneros, Colum McCann, Omar El Akkad and Mieko Kawakami, Freemans: Conclusions is a testament to the startling power of literature to conclude in a state of beauty, fear and promise.

From the voices of protesters to the encroachment of a new fascism, everywhere we look power is revealed. Spouse to spouse, soldier to citizen, looker to gazed upon, power is never static: it is either demonstrated or deployed. Its hoarding is itself a demonstration. This thought-provoking issue of the acclaimed literary annual Freemans explores who gets to say what matters in a time of social upheaval.Many of the writers are women. Margaret Atwood posits it is time to update the gender of werewolf narratives. Aminatta Forna shatters the silences which supposedly ensured her safety as a woman of colour walking in public space. Power must often be seized. The narrator of Lan Samantha Changs short story finally wrenches control of the familys finances from her husband only to make a fatal mistake. Meanwhile the hero of Tahmima Anams story achieves freedom by selling bull semen. Australian novelist Josephine Rowe recalls a gallery attendee trying to take what was not offered when she worked as a life-drawing model. Violence often results from power imbalances - Booker Prize winner Ben Okri watches power stripped from the residents of Grenfell Tower by ferocious neglect. But not all power must wreak damage. Barry Lopez remembers fourteen glimpses of power, from the moment he hitched a ride on a cargo plan in Korea to the glare he received from a bear traveling with her cubs in the woods, asking - do you plan me harm?Featuring work from brand new writers Nicole Im, Jaime Cortez and Nimmi Gowrinathan, as well as from some of the worlds best storytellers, including US poet laureate Tracy K. Smith, Franco-Moroccan writer Leila Slimani, and Turkish novelist Elif Shafak, Freemans: Power escapes from the headlines of today and burrows into the heart of the issue.

The third literary anthology in the series that has been called ambitious (O Magazine) and strikingly international (Boston Globe), Freemans: Home, continues to push boundaries in diversity and scope, with stunning new pieces from emerging writers and literary luminaries alike.As the refugee crisis continues to convulse whole swathes of the world and there are daily updates about the rise of homelessness in different parts of America, the idea and meaning of home is at the forefront of many peoples minds. Viet Thanh Nguyen harks to an earlier age of displacement with a haunting piece of fiction about the middle passage made by those fleeing Vietnam after the war. Rabih Alameddine brings us back to the present, as he leaves his mothers Beirut apartment to connect with Syrian refugees who are building a semblance of normalcy, and even beauty, in the face of so much loss. Home can be a complicated place to claim, because of race - the everyday reality of which Danez Smith explores in a poem about a chance encounter at a bus stop - or because of other types of fraught history. In Vacationland, Kerri Arsenault returns to her birthplace of Mexico, Maine, a paper mill boomtown turned ghost town, while Xiaolu Guo reflects on her childhood in a remote Chinese fishing village with grandparents who married across a cultural divide. Many readers and writers turn to literature to find a home: Leila Aboulela tells a story of obsession with a favourite author.Also including Thom Jones, Emily Raboteau, Rawi Hage, Barry Lopez, Herta Muller, Amira Hass, and more - writers from around the world lend their voices to the theme and what it means to build, leave, return to, lose, and love a home.

We live today in constant motion, travelling distances rapidly, small ones daily, arriving in new states. In this inaugural edition of Freemans, a new biannual of unpublished writing, former Granta editor and NBCC president John Freeman brings together the best new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry about that electrifying moment when we arrive.Strange encounters abound. David Mitchell meets a ghost in Hiroshima Prefecture; Lydia Davis recounts her travels in the exotic territory of the Norwegian language; and in a Dave Eggers story, an elderly gentleman cannot remember why he brought a fork to a wedding.End points often turn out to be new beginnings. Louise Erdrich visits a Native American cemetery that celebrates the next journey, and in a Haruki Murakami story, an ageing actor arrives back in his true self after performing a role, discovering he has changed, becoming a new person.Featuring startling new fiction by Laura van den Berg, Helen Simpson, and Tahmima Anam, as well as stirring essays by Aleksandar Hemon, Barry Lopez, and Garnette Cadogan, Freemans announces the arrival of an essential map to the best new writing in the world.

The sixth volume in the series that has been hailed by NPR, O Magazine and Vogue, Freemans: California features stunning new work from a broad selection of writers, revealing everything that is important and fascinating about Americas most populous state.In Freemans: California, Lauren Markham describes how four generations of her family have lived in and tried to manipulate the water in one of the driest parts of the state and how water and land means everything. Rabih Alameddine recounts becoming a bartender in the mid-1980s as his friends began to die of AIDS. Rachel Kushner reminisces on all the amazing cars shes owned and their peculiar, vivid personalities. Natalie Diaz narrates the process of making her body into a professional basketball player, and how that assembly stalled some of the internal vulnerabilities shed felt as a gay native woman growing up in California. And Elaine Castillo visits her brother in prison.Amid the raging the forest fires plaguing California, William T. Vollmann drives to the Carr fire and sees how fire has become the new state of normality for California. And Jaime Cortez riffs on pulling over at a rest-stop and smelling the fires of Paradise burning.Meanwhile home is in transition as Karen Tei Yamashita recalls a Japanese-American who goes to Japan after the dropping of the bomb, writing back and forth. Reyna Grande explores how her mother fell out of society and became a woman who collects recycling, while she and her siblings have become model immigrants.Also featuring a haunting ghost story from Oscar Villalon, bold new fiction from Tommy Orange, and stunning poems from Mai Der Vang, Juan Felipe Herrera, Maggie Millner and more, Freemans: California assembles a diverse list of brilliant writers.

The Covid-19 pandemic forced many of us to reimagine our homes, work, relationships and adapt to a new way of life - one with far fewer possibilities for interaction. And yet, in this period of intense isolation, weve faced dilemmas which are nearly universal. How to love, to care for aging parents, to find a home, attend to a planet in flux, fight for justice. This vast range of experiences is captured by our greatest storytellers, essayists and poets in Freemans: Change.Some pieces explore the small moments that serve as new routines in a life lived at home, as in Joshua Bennetts essay, where a Coltrane playlist sets the stage for early morning dances with his newborn son. Sometimes, its the absence of change that drives us to the edge. In Lina Mounzers The Gamble, a fathers incessant hope for a better life festers and sinks the whole family after they leave Lebanon during the Civil War. And in Final Days, Sayaka Murata imagines a future without aging, where people must choose how and when they want to die, consulting guidebooks like Lets Die Naturally! Super Deaths for Adults & The Best Spots.With new writing from Julia Alvarez, Sandra Cisneros, Zahia Rahman, Yoko Ogawa, Yasmine El Rashidi, Lina Meruane and Aleksandar Hemon, and featuring work from never-before-published writers like Elizabeth Ayre, Freemans: Change opens a window into the many-sided ways we adapt.

Published as an elegant and collectable book four times a year, Granta is one of the world´s most respected literary magazines, acclaimed for the quality of its writing and for its mix of established and emerging authors. With over 100 issues in print, Granta published the early work of The Hughes and Sylvia Plath.

Fiction Literary Fiction Sex is our oldest obsession For as long as we've been doing it, it has been used as a mark of decline and a measure of progress It has been at the center of rituals and responsible for revolutions We make money from it, hide behind it, prohibit and promote it It relaxes us, revolts us, hurts us, and helps us But whatever we think about it, however we do it, it defines us...

Ten years later, where are we looking? How do we see things differently? From Ground Zero to Kampala to London to Mumbai, the echoes are still heard, the impact is still felt. The way we interact, the way we travel, our relationship to media and technology, and the very way we regard the world we live in have all been irrevocably changed. Granta 116 will examine the consequences of the attacks that occurred on 11 September 2001 from a global perspective. Rather than recounting where we were when it happened and what we saw, this issue will look at how our lives and viewpoints have been altered since that day. Declan Walsh reports from the tribal areas of northwest Pakistan: breeding ground for Al Qaeda and target of U.S. drone strikes. Elliott Woods travels across the US, talking to recruits, noncombatants and veterans and taking the pulse of a nation a decade at war. Pico Iyer considers what air travel is like in the post-9/11 security state; Nicole Krauss writes a melancholy, impressionistic portrait of family, war, life and death in Paris. Adam Johnson and Nuruddin Farah provide extracts from forthcoming novels: in Johnson''s, the ''third mate'' on a North Korean fishing trawler listens in on mysterious radio transmissions; in Farah''s, a father pleads with a Somali warlord for help finding his runaway son. Showcasing some of the most insightful essayists, fiction writers, poets and visual artists working today, Ten Years Later will explore the complexity of how we regard an event that forever shifted our conceptions of fear, anger and hope.

In 2012, Britain is a nation in flux, managing difficult socioeconomic realities, contending with new political alliances and negotiating shifting demographics. Yet it is a country that is still perceived as being bound by tradition and class structures. With new fiction, memoir, poetry, photography and art, Granta's Britain explores landscape, identities and stories of the British Isles. In 'Silt', Robert Macfarlane writes of the beauty and danger of a stretch of coastline in Essex. Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa tells the story of Irish revolutionary nationalist Roger Casement, executed at Pentonville Prison in 1916. Memoirs by Gary Younge, Andrea Stuart and Nikolai Khalezin and Natalia Kaliada focus on the upheavals and migrations that brought them and their families to (and from) Britain. Rachel Seiffert, Ross Raisin, Cynan Jones and Jim Crace provide extracts of their new novels: Seiffert describes Glasgow and Northern Ireland in the 1990s; Raisin paints a portrait of a young footballer struggling with his identity; Jones follows a boy on a strange, dangerous outing with his father; Crace shows how the lives of English farmers changed during the Enclosures in the late 1700s and early 1800s. The issue includes original short fiction by Adam Foulds, Mark Haddon, Tania James and Jon McGregor as well as poems by Simon Armitage, Jamie McKendrick, Don Paterson and Robin Robertson. It also introduces a new voice, Sam Byers, with an extract from his darkly comic debut novel, Idiopathy.

La cámaras réflex digitales (DSLR) son, actualmente, la herramienta imprescindible para los aficionados y profesionales de la fotografía. Tanto si ya tiene una cámara DSLR como si está pensando adquirir una, o tiene intención de pasar de la digital compacta o de la película analógica tradicional a la réflex digital, este práctico manual le aportará toda la ayuda, inspiración y consejos que necesite. Escrito por el fotógrafo John Freeman e ilustrado con cientos de fantásticas fotografías, abarca todos los aspectos prácticos del manejo de la cámara DSLR y le ayudará a sacarle el máximo partido.

"A quick glance at the star-spangled cover and you might think Granta had decided to pander to readers who get their kicks from extraterrestrials. Worry not. The notion of alienation receives the widest possible interpretation, as writers use memoir and fiction to explore age-old themes." -- Sunday Telegraph

Women in the twenty-first century - from Kent to Accra - still live in a world in which the balance of power remains tipped towards men. This bold, political issue of Granta will explore this dynamic from a wide variety of literary genres and perspectives. Rachel Cusk provides a startlingly honest account of a marriage, its breakdown, and the aftermath; Caroline Moorehead gives voice to women who took part in the French Resistance--and were sent to Nazi death camps for their involvement. Urvashi Butalia writes of a male-to-female transsexual in India, who discovers all the obstacles of her adopted sex; A.S. Byatt lays bare the sexism of 1960s academia. The issue features new fiction from Edwidge Danticat, Julie Otsuka, Louise Erdrich and Jeanette Winterson. In ''Night Thoughts'', Helen Simpson hilariously sends up all the sacred pieties of the male provider. ''The Sex Lives of African Girls'', introduces an astonishing new voice, Taiye Selasi, who spins a haunting story about the way adult sexuality can be imposed upon the young. With award-winning reportage, memoir and fiction, over the years Granta has illuminated the most complex issues of modern life through the refractory light of literature. ''The F Word'' will continue this tradition by addressing a theme many readers know has never lost its urgency.

Compendio de la sabiduría artística que el magnífico fotógrafo John Freeman pone al alcance de todos. Una guía básica para sacar todo el partido a su cámara, desde qué equipo elegir hasta los principales motivos para fotografiar (retratos, paisajes, bodegones...)