Ellah Allfrey

As heralded by a fraught spate of tweets at the beginning of May, esteemed UK/U.S. literary magazine and book imprint Granta has seen a slew of senior exits that reflect the travails of book and periodical publishing in the current fast-changing market. Granta magazine editor John Freeman and deputy editor Ellah Allfrey had already left, with [...]

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When the first issue of its new Chinese-language edition appears next month, the London-based literary journal Granta, a publication that has existed in English since the Victorian era, will have a presence in four of the five most widely spoken languages. But plans for the globalization of a leading quarterly that proudly calls itself “the magazine of new writing” don’t stop there.

“In five years I could see us with 15 or 17 foreign editions,” John Freeman, the editor of Granta, said in an interview in New York this summer.