. "Granta founded in 1889 at Cambridge University, featuring such authors as A. A. Milne, Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath; re-born in 1979 as a showcase for new talent (Martin Amis, Saul Bellow, Raymond Carver, Martha Gellhorn, Doris Lessing, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Salman Rushdie, Paul Theroux); ???Granta does not have a political or literary manifesto, but it does have a belief in the power and urgency" . . . .