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← Back to all issuesGranta 141: Canada
Autumn 2017
From Canada’s global cities to its Arctic Circle – from the country’s ongoing story of civil rights movements to languages under pressure – the writers in this issue upend the ways we imagine land, reconciliation, truth and belonging, revealing the histories of a nation’s future.
Guest-edited by Catherine Leroux and Madeleine Thien.
Cover artwork © Leanne Shapton
From this Issue
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Golgotha
Benoit Jutras
‘Our nation is a spell of nerves and gas. We say yes to monsters, to elegies etched in our palms.’ Translated by Daniel Canty.
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The Rememberer
Johanna Skibsrud
‘The history of human thought, she would sigh despairingly, was nothing more, after all, than an arduous dream.’
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Wallace Stevens’s Memory
Armand Garnet Ruffo
‘It was / a line that signaled absolute forgetting / and it made me want to weep into my drink’
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The Initials
Alex Leslie
‘There was no inquiry and no report either because we all have new names now.’
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Writing While Worried
Fanny Britt
‘Just as it can spur me on, worry is adept at stifling and silencing.’
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Bina
Anakana Schofield
‘If you’ve come all this way here to listen to me, your life will undoubtedly get worse. I’m here to warn you, not to reassure you.’
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Life of the Father
Alain Farah
‘Two times is a repetition. Three times is a tradition, or a curse.’ Translated from the French by Lazer Lederhendler.
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The Blue Clerk
Dionne Brand
‘Now you are sounding like me, the clerk says. I am you, the author says.’
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The Canada Pictures
Douglas Coupland
‘In the year leading up to this I started collecting objects that, in some way, evoked a sense of Canadianness in me.’
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The Fjord of Eternity
Lisa Moore
‘Insurance fraud of the sort Trisha investigated involved perps who were dentists with erectile malfunction, men who were scarfing anti-depressants and hit a wall.’
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Tshinanu
Naomi Fontaine
‘Language is a risk that a nation takes. If a language survives, its people do too.’ Translated from the French by David Homel.
