Granta 166

Generations

Thomas Meaney

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Granta
13 February 2024

Prose: non-fiction; Literary essays; Fiction & Literature

Series: Granta

Baby-boomers, gen-X, millennials, zoomers: the dividing lines among generations in literary culture have become stark to the point of parody. Granta 166 tests the limits of each generation's given definition in popular culture against the reality of its most sharply observed fiction.

Stories by Andrew O'Hagan, Brandon Taylor, Nico Walker and Lillian Fishman fill an issue that captures the change in values, aesthetic emphasis and technological experience among different age cohorts, all the while questioning the legitimacy of the generational conceit. Non-fiction includes meditations on the short history of the idea of 'a generation', as well as on the relative absence of youth revolts in our time, and the shadowy rule of the old - gerontocracy - in societies across the globe.

By: Thomas Meaney
Imprint: Granta
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 134mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 179g
ISBN: 9781909889620
ISBN 10: 1909889628
Series: Granta
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 13 February 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Thomas Meaney is the editor of Granta. He has reported for the New Yorker and Harper's magazine, and contributes regularly to the London Review of Books. In 2022, he received the Robert B. Silvers Prize for Journalism.