The UK literary magazine Granta was founded 1889 by students at Cambridge University. It had some difficulties in the 1970s and was relaunched 30 years ago. 101 issues later today they provide a retrospective of issues since their restart in 1979. And every issue since then is still available in print.
Contributors since 1979 include Salman Rushdie, Doris Lessing, Paul Theroux, Julian Barnes, Gabriel García Márquez, John Le Carre and George Steiner to name just a few. The content from (a few) selected issues of Granta has been made available online also to non-subscribers, but we would like to see a much more relaxed policy regarding access to their archives similar to what The Atlantic does in the US.
Nevertheless you can get a glimpse of the history of this outstanding magazine by watching the slide-show with covers from the last 101 issues.
Click on the image below for the link
More information at the Granta web site.
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