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Ian Jack was the editor of The Independent on Sunday and Granta. He is the author of The Country Formerly Known as Great Britain and he writes regularly for The Guardian. (September 2018)
Imploding with Cool
‘The Last London: True Fictions from an Unreal City’ by Iain Sinclair
The Last London: True Fictions from an Unreal City
by Iain Sinclair
September 27, 2018 issue
Good Old Gib
Nicholas Rankin’s ‘Defending the Rock: How Gibraltar Defeated Hitler’
Defending the Rock: How Gibraltar Defeated Hitler
by Nicholas Rankin
March 22, 2018 issue
A Brilliant, Displaced Indian Writer
The Pity of Partition: Manto’s Life, Times, and Work Across the India-Pakistan Divide
by Ayesha Jalal
Bombay Stories
by Saadat Hasan Manto, translated from the Urdu by Matt Reeck and Aftab Ahmad
October 23, 2014 issue
Blood Sport Beneath the City
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
by Katherine Boo
April 5, 2012 issue
Ireland: The Rise & the Crash
Ship of Fools: How Stupidity and Corruption Sank the Celtic Tiger
by Fintan O'Toole
November 11, 2010 issue
Seduced by Trains
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar
by Paul Theroux
December 18, 2008 issue
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