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← Back to all issuesGranta 51: Big Men (and L.A. Women)
Autumn 1995
Big as in substantial, powerful, famous; men as in weak, wicked, and notorious. Gitta Sereny on Albert Speer, the tyrant as survivor; Caroline Alexander on the classical tyrant, Hastings Banda; Andrea Ashworth on the tyrant in the next room, her stepfather. Blake Morrison considers failing manhood, John Sweeney investigates the myth and mystery of Hitler’s missing testicle, and Douglas Brooker photographs the young – some may say strange – women of L.A.
From this Issue
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Our Mother’s New Man
Andrea Ashworth
‘To keep her eye on the cost, our mother set the clockwork oven-timer ticking when she picked up the phone.’
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Dear Adolf
Will Hobson
‘The most beautiful thing for me is to be allowed to write: Dear Führer.’
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Hitler and the Billygoat
John Sweeney
‘The court martial was held in secret, because it concerned the security of the state.’
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Plato Speaks
Caroline Alexander
‘Photographs showed a wood-panelled room, furnished with a long table spread with a leopard skin.’
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Bicycle Thieves
Blake Morrison
‘Late June, scorched grass and sprinklers, the sky as if scuffed and beaten. Too hot to work, too lazy to think.’
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LA Women
Douglas Brooker
‘I was bored. That was how it started. Anything I ever did that amounted to anything–or not–has always been the result of being sick of doing something else.’
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Trouble at the Waterworks
Edward Blishen
‘Old age is a sustained process of injury. You are being very distinctly shot at.’
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The Lady with the Laptop
Clive Sinclair
‘It is Friday, and I am at the airport waving a little flag, a one-man welcoming committee.’
