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← Back to all issuesGranta 77: What We Think of America
Spring 2002
Is the US really so disliked? If so, why? In this issue twenty-four writers drawn from many countries describe the part America has played in their lives – for better or worse – and deliver their estimate of the good and the bad it has done.
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What We Think of America
Ian Jack
‘…a fully-fledged, award-winning, gold-plated monster…it knows only one language—bombs and death’ —Harold Pinter ‘…the only...
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Jihadis
Pankaj Mishra
Peshawar is a mess. And last winter—the winter before September 11 became a significant date,...
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Youth
J.M. Coetzee
‘There are two, perhaps three places in the world where life can be lived at its fullest intensity’
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The Habit
Francis Spufford
‘IT can always tell when you’re reading somewhere in the house,’ my mother used to...
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Have You Decided To Love Me Yet?
Blake Morrison
Crownhill, Plymouth 20.1.43 Dear Agnes (Gennie in future), Just a line to let you know...
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Mecca
Ziauddin Sardar
One The lean man with a falcon-like face smiled from behind his huge desk. Underneath...
