The issue of Granta that defined a new school of American writers: Richard Ford, Jayne Anne Phillips, Raymond Carver, Elizabeth Tallent, Tobias Wolff, Bobbie Ann Mason, Frederic Barthelme, Carolyn Forché and others. Essays & Memoir: Editorial by Bill Buford The State of The State of Things by Michael Herr Fragments of a Lament for Thelonious Monk by Russell Hoban War Reports from Poland by Marek Nowakowski Claudia Cardinale is a Mexican Revolutionary by Duncan Bush Sugar Daddy by Angela Carter El Salvador: An Aide-Mémoire by Carolyn Forché Fiction: Evensong by Todd McEwen Rayme – A Memoir of the Seventies by Jayne Anne Phillips Rock Springs by Richard Ford The Compartment by Raymond Carver Why I Love Country Music by Elizabeth Tallent Monster Deal by Frederick Barthelme Still Life With Watermelon by Bobbie Ann Mason The Barracks Thief by Tobias Wolff Art & Photography Moscow Women by Carola Hansson & Karin Lidén