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Granta 45
Four years ago, Paul Gascoigne was an athlete of promise, but not a lot more. He had his distinctive features: he was gifted and entertaining and a bit goofy - one of the lads. But, apart from a few million English males, who knew about him really?After the summer of 1990, that hot, sticky summer when England lost to Germany in the World Cup, Paul Gascoigne was no longer Paul Gascoigne. The blubbery, wet, wrinkled face witnessed on the television sets of most of the world's population had changed that. He was Gazza now, as famous as the famous can ever become.What would it be like to be Gazza? What are the pressures? How do you cope with possessing 'this gift' - this ability to perform so exceptionally in an athletic contest (but one that you know will peak and then disintegrate)? Ian Hamilton is a poet and biographer. He is also a Tottenham Hotspur supporter - and a Gazza fan. And this is a fan's account: of a player's life and of the fan's obsession, of a sport celebrity and of our apparent need to have one. It is the story of Gazza: at play, on show, in the press, in pain, in distress - of Gazza, more sinned against than sinning, agonistes.
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New fiction from Matt Condon. Panos Karnezis, and Olga Tokarczuk with a story on the hiden lives of hotel rooms, the first translation of Poland's most acclaimed young novelists.
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Many things have been said about General Alfredo Stroessner, the 'President' of Paraguay for thirty-five years. These are ten of them:1. That he was the longest-reigning dictator in the history of South America.2. That his country was a haven for Nazis.3. That, before he came to power, there was no electricity or running water.4. That, after he came to power, the trains ran on time. 5. That on Thursdays, at three-fifteen, he could be found on the ranch near the Avenida Aviadores del Chaco - his guards posted at the gates - visiting his mistress.6. That he 'bought' virgin schoolgirls from their parents.7. That no man had more wealth.8. That no man showed off his wealth less.9. That no man was more feared. 10. That Richard Nixon was his friend.But these points, like so many others, are only speculation: The General doesn't grant interviews. Until, nine months after he was deposed, he was tracked down by Isabel Hilton who spent three days with him, tape recorder running.
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What is Nadia - living over there in Pakistan - really like? A girl of bangles and perfume and lots of money, forever sitting under a palm tree, drinking yogurt?And what is Nina - living over there in London - really like? A wild animal, a brute hardened by drugs and thieving and massage parlours?And what happens when Nadia and Nina, two half-sisters who have never met, are brought together for the first time? What will Dad make of it, or Wifey, or the Flounder, or the fat ones, Moonie and Gloomie?In his first novella, Hanif Kureishi - author of 'My Beautiful Launderette' - has written the most original and comic work of fiction to have appeared in Britain - the 'other' Britain - in many years.
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Granta 8
Dirty Realism is the fiction of a new generation of American authors. They write about the belly-side of contemporary life - a deserted husband, an unwed mother, a car thief, a pickpocket, a drug addict - but they write about it with a disturbing detachment, at times verging on comedy. Understated, ironic, sometimes savage, but insistently compassionate, these stories constitute a new voice in fiction. In this special feature, Granta presents a group of younger authors - many published in Britain for the first time - who, writing in a strange, exaggerated style, have single-handedly revitalized the short story. 'These writers,' Tobias Wolff has observed, 'while not necessarily a school, nevertheless form a new voice. They are able to speak to us about the things that matter.'
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For long hours Shebani sat up there with open eyes listening to the weeping. It was more whimpering, really, someone weeping from fear of too much silence. During those hours there, paralysed, not moving in his blanket, Shebani grew old. Ever after, we say, he carried Makokha's weeping in his body. From The Modern Common Wind. The issue is the habitability of the earth, and it is in this context, not in the context of the direct slaughter of millions of people by the local effects of nuclear weapons, that the question of human survival arises. from The Fate of the Earth. At an age where most young Scotsmen were lifting skirts, plowing furrows, and spreading seed, Mungo Park was displaying his bare buttocks to al-haff Ali Ibn Fatoudi, Emir of Ludamar. From Mungo Among the Moors. Because Hanley's skin has been stripped off by the enemy, he could find no one who was willing to be with him for long. from Anatomy of Desire. Tottenham Court Road! Street of sin, street of shame! I go there by underground, rumbling beneath the surface, howling through black tunnels. I emerge into the light of those windows of desire gleaming in the winter dusk. There is so much I need. so much I want, and all of it is here in my street of love and lust. From Mnemosyne, Teen Taals, and Tottenham Court Road.
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Granta 19
Over the course of the last five years, more and more people have realized that the dominant voice in American fiction is altogether different from what it was. Three years ago, Granta devoted an issue to this new voice, entitled 'Dirty Realism', and published in it the work of eight authors, whose stories, - spare, unillusioned, but compassionate - invoked, with a curious coherence of style, the belly-side of American life: trailers parks, roadside cafés and small mid-western towns. In 'More Dirt' Granta offers fiction not only from many of the contributors to 'Dirty Realism', but also from a number of younger writers - including some who are not widely known... yet.
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'I find myself in 1985 refreshing my memory of 1937 and 1938 in an old commonplace book and very fragmentary diary. There are verses copied there which I must have chosen for their significance at these moments of my life: literary gossip, bizarre crimes and divorces wrenched from newspapers...and then suddenly the digging of trenches on Clapham Common.' Plus Alice Munro, John Updike, Doris Lessing, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Marianne Wiggins.
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This title contains: Richard Ford interviewed by Tim Adams: the aftermath of Dirty Realism; Owen Sheers on the consequences of Christmas Island's nuclear past; Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on the death of her high-school sweetheart; Katya Krausova on the survivors of the Slovakian Holocaust; Roberto Saviano on the streets of Naples; and Kitty Hauser on OGS Crawford: pioneering aerial photographer, utopian socialist and English eccentric. It also contains fiction by Josh Weil, Gemini Wahhaj and Helon Habila; Photo essays in colour: Joel Sternfeld's New York street scenes and in B/w: Dayanita Singh on an unusual pioneering Indian photographer - her mother.
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Granta 91
LAST GASPS Thoughts about Alan while waiting for Harold, by Simon Gray The author of the celebrated and widely-acclaimed The Smoking Diaries returns to print with a tender, affecting, and of course funny account of his friendship with Alan Bates, written as he waits in Barbados for Harold Pinter to turn up. PLUS: Said Sayrafiezadeh on the perils of having a socialist for a father Simon Garfield on his obsession with faulty postage stamps Wayne McLennan on the Australian outback's last boxing nomads. And Margaret Atwood, James Hamilton-Paterson, James Lasdun, Orhan Pamuk, Maarten 't Hart and Tim Winton on our changing weather. With new fiction by Frederic Tuten and Gllad Evron.
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Granta 23
Prague, Beirut, Des Moines, the ugliest village in Essex. What is home for an Arab in Israel? For an ex-patriot returning for the Iowa Country Fair? For a man surrounded by chickens?Plus:Nicholas Shakespeare, in the Andes of Peru.T. Coraghessan Boyle, witnessing miracles in Ireland.Ian Hamilton, in pursuit of J. D. Salinger.Charles Nicholl, watching blood sports in Martinique.
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From Nobel laureates to debut novelists, international translations to investigative journalism, each issue of Granta turns the attention of the world's best writers on to one aspect of the way we live now.
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Britain invented the factory - Manchester was the world's first factory city. Where are they now? The anser, mainly, is China. An issue devoted to how and where we made and make things, from strawberries in the fields of Herefordshire to the car plants of Korea.
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A collection of essays, both fiction and non-fiction, examining psychiatry from the patient's couch and the psychiatrist's chair.
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The first issue of the new Granta collects work by some of the most accomplished American writers of the seventies - many published for the first time in Britain.
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The Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, China, Cuba...what has happened to the nineteenth-century dream of revolution? John Berger, Milan Kundera, Orville Schell, Anita Brookner, James Fenton, Doris Lessing, Martin Amis, and Edward Said.
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Granta 11
What is Milan Kundera's writing about? Sexual conquest and Russian tanks, arousal and totalitarian repression, infidelity and political betrayal, desire and the quiet tragedy of Europe. Kundera is a literary acrobat, a master of paradox and parody. An exile from communism and a critic of the West, a sceptic and irrepressible story-teller, an erotic hedonist whose life is politicized in the extreme, Kundera is as surprising and as unpredictable as the contemporary world he addresses. The current issue of Granta publishes, for the first time in Britain, a collection of Kundera's newest work, representing the range and power of an author whom more and more people have come to recognize as one of the most important writers to have emerged in the last ten years.
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What does it mean to leave your country?Is it possible, by travelling to a New World, to become a new person?A year ago, Jonathan Raban crossed the Atlantic by ship and, like the immigrants before him, made for America.The first of four installments, 'New World' is the story of his journey, a journey in search of a new language, a new name, a new identity. A life.
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Granta 25
Martin Amis's tale of Nicola Six, a girl who's been trouble all her life. Plus: 'Gibraltar', Ian Jack's award-winning investigation into the Death on the Rock, Raymond Carver, Tess Gallagher, Todd McEwen, John Berger, Angela Carter, and Don DeLillo.
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Granta 6
This special, double issue of Granta is organized to fill a gap, a felt emptiness in current literary achievement. At a time when it is imperative that we have a literature and a language that are responsible, accountable and instrumental to the lives of we are having to lead - a literature that is an adversary of oppression and not an accomplice to it - we have instead a writing that is remarkable only for its dubious feats of technical virtuosity, its relentless self-referentiality and its deliberate retreat from experience. Granta 6 is dedicated to a different set of possibilities - the possibilities of political engagement.
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Granta 3
Is it the end of the English novel? Has it grown predictable and unadventurous? Granta 3 collects work from writers and critics which points to the fact that our terms have grown inadequate: it is also the end of the English novel; but it is also the beginning - quite possibly an extremely important beginning - of British fiction.
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The Family'They fuck you up, your mum and dad,' Philip Larkin wrote, but Philip Larkin got it wrong. There are also your brothers and your sisters. And your uncles, your grandfather, your endless cousins, your second cousins, your mother-in-law, your father-in-law and your children. There are always the children. The family: no relationship is more important, or more powerful, or more enduring. Or potentially more destructive.In this issue: Mikal Gilmore growing up with a murderer in a family in love with the romance of violence. Sappho Durrell, daughter of the novelist, obsessed by her father - wanting to love him, wanting to kill him. William Wharton determined to represent the intense, unrelenting detail of an unspeakable loss. Geoffrey Wolff on the bliss of a family properly on course.
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Granta 10
Travel writing is undergoing a revival: not since the 1920s and '30s has it been so popular or so important. What accounts for its sudden appeal? A need for escape? Nostalgia for an experience that means not tourism but adventure? Or does travel writing - being part reportage, part fiction, and part meditation - express concerns that we rarely see addressed in other forms of writing? This issue, the tenth edition of Granta, is devoted to the work of some of today's most important travel writers, including the already established and those just beginning to build their reputations.
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As with the first two Young British Novelists issues, Granta's 2003 list was compelling and prescient. The issue introduced readers to fiction by Zadie Smith, David Mitchell and Monica Ali. From Ben Rice's story of marital crises among Koi fanciers to Hari Kunzru's account of the development of a Bollywood-inspired computer virus, the issue showcases the multifacetedness and vibrancy of contemporary British literature.
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What was it like to be that lost personality in a vanished time, a child? This issue describes the rearing, loving, loathing, and fearing of children, and includes some remarkable evocations of being a child. Jayne Anne Phillips, Blake Morrison, Adam Mars-Jones, David Mamet, Todd McEwen, Allan Gurganus, Leila Berg, and more.
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Granta 26
Five years ago, Granta published 'Travel Writing'.Five years ago there was a travel writing revival, and the revival continues today. There are hundreds of magazines of travel writing; there are television and radio programmes; there are publishers devoted exclusively to it - and Granta's first issue has been reprinted eleven times.What kind of writing do travel writers write now? What, after a five-year revival, is travel writing? How long can the exotic remain exotic?Five years ago, the most influential travel writer was the one who showed that the best travel writing is not about the exotic or travel at all, but, borrowing from history and fact and the imagination, about something else entirely. His name is Bruce Chatwin.'Travel' is dedicated to his memory.
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An aphorism: you are what you eat.A second aphorism: the discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of mankind than the discovery of a star.A third aphorism: dessert without cheese is like a pretty woman with only one eye.The French philosopher-gourmet Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin wrote all three almost two centuries ago. Like most aphorisms they have the cracked ring of the nearly true. Brillat-Savarin was on surer ground - ground as hard as ungrated Parmesan - when he wrote:The world is nothing without life, and all that lives takes nourishment.So: you are what you eat, and if you don't eat, you aren't.This issue of Granta examines the vital stuff. Food as indulgence, certainly (gastro-pornography - blinis with caviar, roast puffin), but also food as a taboo, a cruelty, a repulsion, a desperate need, a failed sex aid, and a way of earning your living.
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In this issue, arguments for the future of publishing by Brigid Brophy, John Sutherland, David Caute, Blake Morrison, Per Gedin, David Godine and Walter Abish. Also, fiction from Martin Amis, Guy Davenport, Nicole Ward Jouve, Kenneth Bernard and Raymond Carver. Plus, an essay on realism and sexuality by Mario Vargas Llosa.
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James Fenton is a rather peculiar individual.He was, after all, among the first to loot the US Embassy as the city of Saigon fell. This year, he found himself in the Presidential Palace in Manila, and his booty included one towel (with the monogram of Imelda Marcos) and a letter to President Macros - resting alongside the grand piano, on which James Fenton managed to play a version of Bach's Prelude in C (abruptly abbreviated), while the population of Manila rioted.But James Fenton's version of the Philippines is more than a record of being at the right place at the worst of possible times. It is also an account of one of the most historic uprisings in recent years - in which an entire people, cheated of its vote in a snap election, responded in turn: with a snap revolution.
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