Grant also wrote for magazines as varied as "Walkabout", "The New Yorker, Mademoiselle, Playboy, Cleo, The Bulletin, Quadrant, Overland" and "Meanjin", and was an author of three novels on the theme 'Love in the Asian Century', and of short stories, and essays including "The Great Pretender at the Bar of Justice," written at the trial of Slobodan Milošević, published in "The Best Australian Essays 2002;" and "Bali: The Spirit of Here and Now," written after the October 2002 bombings, published in "The Best Australian Essays 2004".