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← Back to all issuesGranta 140: State of Mind
Summer 2017
In an age when we are finally taking mental health as seriously as physical health, this issue of Granta explores the conscious self: how it perceives, judges and lives in the world.
Cover image © Leif Podhajsky
From this Issue
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One Picture, A Thousand Words
Charles Glass & Don McCullin
‘I think they are not on the right path. It’s wrong. What they are doing is wrong.’
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A Mingling | State of Mind
Siri Hustvedt
‘My empathy may become a vehicle of insight for me and therefore help me to help you or it may debilitate me altogether, make me so sad I am no good to you whatsoever.’
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Salvage
Reynaldo Rivera & Chris Kraus
‘Throughout the 1980s and 90s, Reynaldo photographed his world, a world that no longer exists in LA.’ Photographs by Reynaldo Rivera, introduced by Chris Kraus.
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The Recall of Herman Harcourt
Colin Grant
‘I had the queer feeling of looking into a mirror of the projected future, of perhaps seeing how easily his fall could be a rehearsal for my own.’
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Monster | State of Mind
Margo Jefferson
‘Today’s a day for you to feel blocked and impeded; a coward in work and love; resenting duty; suspecting pleasure.’
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Mistaken | State of Mind
Mary Ruefle
‘I take it, if only as a substitute for my unknown name’
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Imagined Memories
Francesca Todde & Nuar Alsadir
‘The creation of a screen memory is an encoding process: the screen retains all that is important from the past, but in encrypted form.’ Nuar Alsadir introduces the photographs of Francesca Todde.
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Gay and Depressed | State of Mind
Andrew Solomon
‘It would be a bit more tolerable if we lived in a society that didn’t blame depression on its victims.’
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The Alarming Palsy of James Orr
Tom Lee
‘As it was, this gave the impression of two different faces, two different people, welded savagely together.’
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Books Do Furnish a Room
Penelope Lively
‘The shelves say something about the person who has stocked them; they say much.’
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Threshold | State of Mind
Barry Lopez
‘What we’re about to see is greater than the thing you’re running from.’
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Past Perfect
Jason Larkin
‘Museums are not solely concerned with objects and our collective past, but also with ideas; notions of what the world is, or should be.’
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Turbines
Claire Luchette
‘We took turns tying tight the laces.’
New fiction by Claire Luchette.
