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Grandma Norman and the Queen
Philip Norman
‘From the fifties to the seventies the Queen hadn't put a foot wrong.’
Granta 167: Extraction Online
You Are the Product
‘The anglophone world, we have to infer, has run out of words for its own feelings.’
Daisy Hildyard on the wisdom of scarecrows.
You Are the Product
‘What is the read receipt for?’
Lillian Fishman on texting, power and the ethics of leaving a friend on read.
You Are the Product
‘Like pretty much everyone who uses the internet, I have seen many terrible things that I did not search for and that I cannot unsee.’
Rosanna McLaughlin on what the internet thinks she wants.
You Are the Product
‘I have a pathological addiction to the internet, which I indulge with the excuse of making art. It rarely translates to anything good and mostly leaves me overstimulated and afraid.’
Paul Dalla Rosa on excess and the internet.
Two Poems
‘rumors of bees on speedwell, / no oxidative stress just / effortless pollination’
Two poems by Sylvia Legris.
Philip Norman
Philip Norman was born in 1943 and was brought up on the Isle of Wight, where his father operated the Amusement Arcade and Skating Rink at the end of Ryde Pier. He has written widely about music for the Sunday Times and The Times. He is the author of SHOUT! The True Story of the Beatles, The Skater’s Waltz and The Road Goes on Forever. In 1983, he was named one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists. His most recent biographies include John Lennon: The Life (2008) and Mick Jagger (2012).
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