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← Back to all issuesGranta 143: After the Fact
Spring 2018
This issue of Granta is concerned with aftermaths. When the news cameras turn away, what remains? It includes reportage from Syria, Russia, Essex, London and beyond, as well as new fiction, poetry and photography.
Cover photograph © Edward Burtynsky
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Mother’s Death
Stephen Sharp
‘Last year father attacked me as a “wet radish”. This caused me to give up writing diary entries.’
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Snow Job
Brian Allen Carr
‘I like to think the ones who are worst at coloring will remember me the longest.’
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Song of the Andoumboulou: 212
Nathaniel Mackey
—brother b’s roman sojourn— Brother B gathered his locks, bound them with a...
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Palmyra
Charles Glass & Don McCullin
‘ISIS’s second conquest of Palmyra astonished everyone, and fed the belief in a Syrian government conspiracy to assist ISIS.’
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The Last Shopkeepers of London
David Flusfeder
‘It became a kind of mission to find contemporaries of theirs that weren’t closing down, establishments that have continued to flourish, or at least endure.’
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The Perseids
Susan Straight
‘The time of the Perseids never varied. That was why Dante’s mother had taught him the stars.’
