Jason Cowley: now weekly

Well, that didn't last long. Monkey means Jason Cowley's editorship of Granta. Just eight months and one issue, Granta 101, before Cowley upped and left for the New Statesman, as we reported on Friday. Monkey is not counting Granta 100, which had a guest editor. In terms of brevity, it's a stint that stands proudly beside Dawn Airey's eight-month sojourn at ITV before she jumped ship to Channel Five. "It has been a thrilling period," Cowley says of his tenure, which included a trip to New York to promote the magazine there. Already this worthy video, in which Cowley sets out his vision for the title, has taken on the quality of a museum exhibit. In it he says: "It's a period of expansion, of reinvigoration, in some ways modernisation because we are determined to take Granta into the 21st century." Or in Cowley's case, not that far into the 21st century. He starts editing the New Statesman in September.