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← Back to all issuesGranta 120: Medicine
Summer 2012
This collection of new fiction, poetry, memoir and art showcases the work of doctors who are also writers, poets who have become patients and some of today’s most beloved literary voices on subjects ranging from autism to ageing. Sometimes the best medicine is a story itself.
From this Issue
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Grand Rounds
Chris Adrian
‘I used to fall asleep in those same seats during lectures just like this one.’
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Dilation
Ben Lerner
‘My role in the slaughter doesn’t disqualify the beauty I find in all / forms of sheltered flame.’
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The Cutting
Rose Tremain
‘I could not for too long delay my promise to Violet Bathurst to cut out her Cancer.’
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The Lady and the Skull
Angela Carter
‘I believed I had defined the problem. / With which the picked skull had presented me.’
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My Heart
Semezdin Mehmedinović
‘Today, it seems, was the day I was meant to die.’ Translated from the Bosnian by Celia Hawkesworth.
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Ordinary Light
Brad Feuerhelm & A.L. Kennedy
‘Here were humanity’s wilder beauties and our horrors, the physical record of hatreds, lusts and quiet obsessions.’ A.L. Kennedy introduces Brad Feuerhelm’s photographic collection.
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The Perfect Code
Terrence Holt
‘At the centre of all this lies the patient, the only one in the room who isn’t shouting.’
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The Former Mayor’s Ancient Daughter
Rachel Shihor
‘With us in the nursing home lives the ancient daughter of the former mayor’
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The Third Dumpster
Gish Jen
‘It was about doing what sons were bound to do, which was not to pussyfoot around.’
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Philanthropy
Suzanne Rivecca
‘They were all perpetually cowed by their own brutality, quivering and defeated by the measures they were forced to enact.’
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Randy and Mummy at the Drawbridge
Linda H. Davis
‘Long after I had ceased feeling guilty about my father’s death, I still felt defined by it.’
