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Spring 2025
In Granta 171: Dead Friends, contributors write about their departed mentors and friends.
Featuring Renata Adler on Hannah Arendt, Fernanda Eberstadt on Andy Warhol, Michel Houellebecq on Benoît Duteurtre, Tao Lin on Giancarlo DiTrapano, Aatish Taseer on V.S. Naipaul, as well as autobiography from Yasmina Reza and William Atkins on new developments in our disposal of the dead.
Fiction by Susie Boyt, Joshua Cohen, Marlen Haushofer and Gary Indiana.
Poetry by Anne Carson, Krystyna Dąbrowska, Audun Mortensen and Robert Walser.
And photography by Mark Cawson, aka Smiler, introduced by Iain Sinclair, as well as Ming Smith, with an introduction by Tobi Haslett.
Cover image by Nan Goldin, The Hug, New York City, 1980
From this Issue
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When Rhinestones Star the Night and You Find Yourself Thinking Fondly of Dave Hickey
Anne Carson
‘Look, the / blessings should surprise you, not / the pain.’
Poetry by Anne Carson.
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Killing Stella
Marlen Haushofer
‘I read somewhere that you can get used to anything, and habit is the strongest force in our lives.’
Fiction by Marlen Haushofer, translated by Shaun Whiteside.
