John Freeman

The first email was sent less than forty years ago; by 2011, there will be 3.2 billion users. The flood of messages is ceaseless. As the toll of email mounts, reducing our time for leisure and contemplation, and separating us from each other in the lonely battle with the inbox, John Freeman enters a plea for communication that is more...

This timely issue of Freeman's includes new work from Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell, Ben Okri, Eka Kurniawan and Australia's Josephine Rowe. From the voices of protestors to the encroachment of a new fascism, everywhere we look power is revealed. This thought-provoking issue of the acclaimed literary annual Freeman's explores who gets to say what matters in a time of social...

The third literary anthology in the series that has been called ambitious (O Magazine) and strikingly international (Boston Globe), Freeman's: Home, continues to push boundaries in diversity and scope, with stunning new pieces from emerging writers and literary luminaries alike. Viet Thanh Nguyen offers a haunting piece of fiction about those fleeing Vietnam after the war. Rabih Alameddine leaves his...

John Freeman, author and editor of Granta magazine, has interviewed nearly every name in fiction and the literary world. In this collection, Freeman has compiled the most insightful and fascinating of his interviews, essays, and articles. Paul Theroux on the state of sex in America, Margaret Atwood as an inventor, John Updike as a relationship advisor, and Geoff Dyer as...

Tales of Two Planets, expertly curated by the beloved writer and editor John Freeman, builds upon his acclaimed anthology Tales of Two Americas. In this new collection, Freeman gathers some of the most remarkable writers from around the globe to illuminate how the environmental crisis impacts the world's most vulnerable communities. Over the last five years, John Freeman, the former...

Over a century ago, Rilke went to the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, where he watched a pair of flamingos. A flock of other birds screeched by, and, as he describes in a poem, the great red-pink birds sauntered on, unphased, then 'stretched amazed and singly march into the imaginary.' This encounter—so strange, so typical of flamingos with their fabulous...