"Memorable recent issues have been devoted to German and Chinese literature. (Its most recent issue focuses on India.) The magazine has also revived its tradition of genre-defying nonfiction, in long-form articles by William T. Vollmann, Mary Gaitskill, Rahmane Idrissa, and the factory poet Xiao Hai, among others. As a writer, Meaney is best known for his essays, which appear in the London Review of Books and The New Yorker, as well as for his reportage in Harper's."
"I am a fortunate son of the American empire, born during Reagan's Second Cold War in the garrison state of South Korea. The dictator Chun Doo-hwan-"our son of a bitch"-lived down the street. I was awoken in the night by sorties of SR-71 Blackbirds overhead breaking the sound barrier. There was a standing plan for my amah to whisk me away to the Taebaek Mountains if the North invaded."
Thomas Meaney edits Granta from bases in Berlin and London and redirected the magazine toward bold international focuses, including German, Chinese, and Indian literature. Granta has revived long-form, genre-defying nonfiction with contributions from William T. Vollmann, Mary Gaitskill, Rahmane Idrissa, and Xiao Hai. Meaney publishes essays and reportage in outlets such as the London Review of Books, The New Yorker, and Harper's. He combines agile, commanding prose with historically deep judgments. Meaney's formative experiences include being born in South Korea during the Reagan era and growing up amid conservative American culture and a family tied to the US military.
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