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Now A Major Motion Picture
Todd McEwen
‘None of these high-falutin pansy-ass would-be 'technologies' are going to save literature.’
Best of Young American Novelists 2: Introduction
Ian Jack
Ian Jack introduces Granta 97: Best of Young American Novelists 2.
War Zones: Introduction
Ian Jack
‘Feelings of hate and despair dwindle as they pass down the generations.’
The Little Museum of Memory
Mark Slouka
‘Maybe they're worried that their absence will be noticed. Maybe they just want to come home.’
Thank God We’ve Got A Navy
Brian Thompson
‘Today it is usual—especially among those who have never faced conscription—to describe national service as time wasted, even an offence against civil liberties in some sinister way.’
Loved Ones: Introduction
Ian Jack
One of the world's unfair divisions is that between the writer and the written-about, and this is nowhere more true than in the literary form called the memoir.
Help, Help, Help
Jonathan Taylor
‘Day in, day out, my father had to watch us smiling and laughing, while he couldn't join.’
Early Retirement
John Lanchester
‘My father used to tell the story of a tutor at his university, a Viennese professor of something or other.’
Mao Comes to Sydney
Georgia Blain
‘After all, it was only politics, and I was too young to understand.’
