"Granta's first incarnation was as a student magazine at Cambridge U niversity. It began in 1889 and published the early work of writers as various as E.M. Forster and A.A. Milne, Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. G ranta's second incarnation took it out of Cambridge and into the wider world. It began in 1979." (a brief history from the Granta web page)

Subtitle varies: 1889-19?? , A college joke to cure the dumps; <aut umn 2000>- , The magazine of new writing.

In the new series, most issues have also a distinctive title.

Latest issue consulted: Volume 153 (Autumn 2020).