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Spring 2022
Granta 159: What Do You See? features William Atkins on Sizewell C, the proposed nuclear power station in Suffolk; travel essays by Jason Allen-Paisant and Ishion Hutchinson, memoir by Kevin Childs, Geoff Dyer, Alejandro Zambra (translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell) and Lars Horn.
Fiction by Adam Foulds, Andrew Holleran and Maxim Osipov (translated from the Russian by Alex Fleming) and Rebecca Sollom.
Photography by Phalonne Pierre Louis; Raphaela Rosella, introduced by Nicole R. Fleetwood; and Muhammad Salah, introduced by Esther Kinsky.
Cover image by Suzie Howell.
From this Issue
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Beyond Conversion Therapy
Kevin Childs
‘When I was growing up in his house, religion was his crutch, a justification for his behaviour.’
Kevin Childs on growing up queer in a Catholic household.
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My Mother Photographs Me in a Bath of Dead Squid
Lars Horn
‘She is not a conventionally “good” mother. But then, put like that, it sounds like a slow death sentence anyhow.’
Lars Horn on modeling for their artist mother.
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Blue-Eyed Muggers
Alejandro Zambra
‘At every protest, when it was time to yell at the cops, I remembered my father and felt a turbulent emotion.’
Memoir by Alejandro Zambra on his father and his son.
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Diary of a Journey to Senegal
Ishion Hutchinson
‘Sea night music: what is the music?’
Ishion Hutchinson in Senegal.
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Ghosts
Adam Foulds
‘It was unmistakable, he said; it was absolutely him.’
Fiction by Adam Foulds.
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The Kingdom of Sand
Andrew Holleran
‘In a small town, one thinks that Time is not even passing.’
An excerpt from Holleran’s novel The Kingdom of Sand.
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Being-in-the-World
Geoff Dyer
‘Even experienced users get scared because it’s so far out.’
Geoff Dyer on ageing and understanding the self.
