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An Open Letter to Mbeki
Petina Gappah
‘You are human, Mr Mbeki, and are therefore prey to the resentments and obstinacies that plague the mere mortal.’
Sign of the Gun
P. D. Mallamo
‘You are going to be lonely for a while, he says to himself at six p.m. on a Thursday and orbits the field three times before dropping in like he’s crashing, just beyond the edge of the canyon.’
Simon Willis | What I’m Reading
Simon Willis
‘Like an excitable child, I rushed to the foyer to buy my copy.’
Gordon Burn | Interview
Gordon Burn & Simon Willis
‘The line between reality and its representation has become rivetingly porous.’
P.D. Mallamo | Interview
P. D. Mallamo & Roy Robins
‘Writing and reading in third-person present is like a high-speed drive through Nevada at two a.m.: incredibly invigorating and somewhat dangerous.’
Opinion: Kenya
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
‘Where Kenyatta had imprisoned me for my writing, Moi sent three truckloads of armed policemen to raze to the ground the community theatre where I worked.’
Tim Lott | Interview
Tim Lott & Helen Gordon
‘Somehow by putting things into words you’re taking a situation that feels very out of control and creating a kind of illusion of control over it.’
Musa Qala, Afghanistan | Dispatches
James Holland
‘As I discovered, many Afghans still believe that the Taliban offers security.’
Photography: The Paris Intifada
Nick Danziger
Nick Danziger’s photographs of the troubled Paris suburb of Bagneux.
Jason Cowley | What I’m Reading
Jason Cowley
‘Music, because of its abstraction, is the most difficult of all art forms to write about with exactitude and precision.’
Photography: Svarlbard
Gautier Deblonde
A selection of photographs from the Arctic archipelago Svarlbard.
One Hundred: Introduction
William Boyd
Granta 100: One Hundred’s guest-editor on the challenge of putting together a milestone issue.
Something to Tell You
Hanif Kureishi
‘I’d have dumped her if it wouldn’t have caused more problems than it solved.’
Three Character Sketches
Mario Vargas Llosa
‘For Fataumata, and others like her, dying tragically is dying naturally.’
In-flight Entertainment
Helen Simpson
‘All you needed for the modern world was to know how to work a remote control.’
The Unknown Known
Martin Amis
A satire on fundamentalism in this extract from an unpublished manuscript.
Chickens and Eggs
Doris Lessing
‘Twenty-one days it takes to hatch eggs, twenty-one nights, and there sits the great fierce hen who had accepted me as protector and jailer for that time.’
End of the Pier Show
Michael Hofmann
‘They were fascinated / by what they seemed to have contained.’
The White Hole of Bombay
Nicholas Shakespeare
‘If you like people who hate each other, it’s paradise.’
The Joy of Difficulty
Lavinia Greenlaw
‘did you breathe differently / as if equipped with an aqualung’
Estonia, Out in the Country
Ingo Schulze
‘I didn’t believe my eyes, not even when I saw what was happening in front of them.’
