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Spring 2008
Granta 101 features incisive reportage and investigative journalism alongside new fiction and a photo essay from the Arctic. Andrew Hussey reports from the troubled Parisian suburbs; Tim Lott explores the brutal murder of his agent; Xan Rice travels to Angola in search of a missing father and son. Plus a new opening section, short stories from Annie Proulx, Rick Moody and Joshua Ferris, a new column by Douglas Coupland and poetry from Robin Robertson.
From this Issue
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Dreams of Reason
Ruth Franklin
‘We know that nightmares are unreal, yet they torment us all the same.’
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Zulu Romeo Foxtrot
Douglas Coupland
‘This inflexibility makes sense to a non-visual thinker, but to visual thinkers such dogma is depressing and sad, like forcing ballerinas to wear suits of armour.‘
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The Paris Intifada
Andrew Hussey
‘In the nineteenth century, Charles Baudelaire wrote of Paris being haunted by its past, by ‘ghosts in daylight.’
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Blitzed Beijing
Robert Macfarlane
‘It’s at night that you really notice the dust, because artificial light suddenly makes the fines visible.’
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The Judgement of Lut
Tim Lott
‘The point is, in the tower, on that night, certain gods revealed themselves to one another and came into conflict.‘
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The Aviators
Xan Rice
‘Some men live to fly, and Captain John Wilkinson was one of them.’
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More Afraid of You
Joshua Ferris
‘On Bainbridge Island, across the Puget Sound from Seattle, there are two modes of living: downtown and inland.’
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Bomb Gone
Owen Sheers
‘We had been driving along the Bay of Wrecks on the eastern coast of Christmas Island for over an hour and a half when we saw the flock of terns.’
