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← Back to all issuesGranta 47: Losers
Spring 1994
A hymn to unmitigated public humiliation. With Martin Amis on a writer who can’t write; Julian Barnes on a champion who can’t win; Neil Steinberg on the stress of the National Spelling Bee; Beverly Lowry on two boys who killed their daddy; Jean Hatzfwld with dispatches from the Yugoslav war (photos by Gilles Peress); Jayne Anne Phillips and Bret Easton Ellis, and more.
From this Issue
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The Spelling Bee
Neil Steinberg
‘Jacob spells ‘idiosyncratically’ and nods at the ‘That is correct,’ as if to say, ‘Damn right that is correct, lady.’’
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Never Let Me Down
Susan J. Miller
‘The statement was the truth of him–not only what he said, but also the fact that he would say it to us, and say it without guilt, without apology, without regret'.
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Buddy Carmody
Jayne Anne Phillips
‘No one was safe walking to church in the dark, but Buddy knew better than to beg not to go'.
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Patricide
Beverly Lowry
‘By now, the shooting is old news, and Rush Springs, Oklahoma, has had its five minutes of notoriety’, Beverly Lowry in 'Patricide'
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The Fall of Vukovar
Jean Hatzfeld
'Jean Hatzfeld returned to the former Yugoslavia and was severely wounded by gunfire in June 1992'.
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Hero of Tiananmen Square
Orville Schell
‘The spring of 1989 was so apocalyptic that at the time it had seemed unthinkable that the year's events would fade or that China would ever be able to forget them.'
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Progress in Prague
Ivan Klíma
‘People in the West are aware of the hardship and bewilderment that accompanied the political and economic transformation of central and eastern Europe after 1989.'
