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Granta

American  
[gran-tuh] / ˈgræn tə /

noun

  1. Cam.


Granta British  
/ ˈɡræntə, ˈɡrɑːntə /

noun

  1. the original name, still in use locally, for the River Cam

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“If the unconscious is structured like a language, the design of a therapist’s consulting room is also a language,” Deborah Levy writes in a recent Granta essay.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026

Adapted from Adrift in the South, by Xiao Hai, translated by Tony Hao, to be published by Granta on May 26, 2026.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026

Wainaina’s Granta piece, his most famous work, had a somewhat inauspicious beginning.

From New York Times ● May 29, 2023

Only three of the top 10, including the cheap, bestselling Lada Granta, were domestic Lada cars produced by flagship Russian automaker Avtovaz.

From Reuters ● May 4, 2023

Of course I edited the Granta for a year," he would say, "and I don't think I did it badly….

From The Secret City by Sir Hugh Walpole

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