This issue features new work by the twenty writers that Granta’s judges - including novelists Edmund White and A.M. Homes - have selected as the most interesting, new young voices in American fiction.

Granta began its influential ‘Best of Young.’ series with British novelists in 1983, repeated in 1993 and 2003. In 1996, Granta’s first Best of Young American Novelists included Jeffrey Eugenides, Jonathan Franzen and Lorrie Moore. Announced March 2007, the new list is: Daniel Alarc n

Kevin Brockmeier

Judy Budnitz

Christopher Coake

Anthony Doerr

Jonathan Safran Foer

Nell Freudenberger

Olga Grushin

Dara Horn

Gabe Hudson

Uzodinma Iweala

Nicole Krauss

Rattawut Lapcharoensap

Yiyun Li

Maile Meloy

ZZ Packer

Jess Row

Karen Russell

Akhil Sharma

Gary Shteyngart

John Wray