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← Back to all issuesGranta 145: Ghosts
Autumn 2018
This issue of Granta is about time and about ghosts – the ghosts of our past selves, the shadows of past injuries, the ghosts of history, the ghosts in the machine.
André Aciman remembers Rome
Ahmet Altan writes from prison in Turkey
Bernard Cooper on Ambien and sleep-eating
Maggie O’Farrell on living with chronic back pain
Vasily Grossman’s Stalingrad, a companion to his epic Life and Fate
Amos Oz in conversation with Shira Hadad
Inigo Thomas on the fall of Singapore
PLUS
NEW FICTION from Anne Carson, Steven Dunn, Sheila Heti, Eugene Lim, Sandra Newman, Maria Reva and Jess Row
POETRY from Cortney Lamar Charleston and Jana Prikryl
PHOTOGRAPHY from Monika Bulaj, with an introduction by Janine di Giovanni
From this Issue
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Greedy Sleep
Bernard Cooper
‘I knew I had a problem when I woke up in a Motel 6 in Fresno.’
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Yokosuka blue line
Steven Dunn
‘I close my eyes and circle my finger around the map. Wherever my finger lands.’
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Stalingrad
Vasily Grossman
‘On the rampage, he truly did become a devil; it was impossible to restrain him.’ Translated from the Russian by Robert & Elizabeth Chandler.
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The Hazara
Monika Bulaj & Janine di Giovanni
‘The people I met once I reached Bamiyan were not victims.’ Janine di Giovanni introduces Monika Bulaj’s photographs.
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The Canvas Bag
Inigo Thomas
‘It was given to her by her Japanese captors after the Fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942 to pack the few possessions she was allowed to take with her to prison.’
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Bob
Jana Prikryl
‘he cut out small talk / not hearing it, convincingly deaf to its nothing’
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Ardor (Aghast)
Anne Carson
‘I taught you what you know, I never taught you what I know.’
