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← Back to all issuesGranta 67: Women and Children First
Autumn 1999
How do we cope with the public and private disaster? Jasmina Tesanovic on being bombed in Belgrade – ‘The Diary of a Political Idiot’; Ian Jack on good behavior aboard the Titanic; Joy Williams on the necessary death of her dog Hawk; Edward Said on the shame of his body; James Buchan inside Saddam’s Iraq. Plus: Edmund White, and the début of a novelist unknown when this issue was published – Zadie Smith.
From this Issue
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The Diary of A Political Idiot
Jasmina Tesanovic
‘Belgrade is rocking, shaking, trembling. We are entering the second phase of NATO intervention. The sirens went off today for nearly twenty-four hours.’
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Hawk
Joy Williams
‘As regards to life it is much the best to think that the experiences we have are necessary for us.’
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A Different Century
Larry Towell
A photoessay on the Mennonite colonies of Mexico and in Canada.
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Inside Iraq
James Buchan
‘My first sight of modern Iraq was a colossal fairy-lit head of Saddam Hussein hurtling out of the darkness, as if from another galaxy of despotism and violence.’
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The Problem Outside
Linda Polman
‘About 150,000 refugees, standing shoulder to shoulder on a mountain plateau the size of three football fields.’
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On Observation Hill
Francis Spufford
‘Here I stand on Observation Hill. If the Devil made me an offer at this moment, I feel sure I would accept.’
