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Winter 1997
This is an issue about untimely ends and fateful escapes. With: Ariel Dorfman on surviving the Chilean coup; Ian Jack on those who felt beleaguered by the mobs and the mourning for the Princess of Wales; Linda Grant on her mother’s vanishing mind. Clive Sinclair on ‘The Soap Opera From Hell’ (his life). Plus: new fiction by Aimee Bender and Jonathan Levi.
From this Issue
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September, 1973
Ariel Dorfman
‘It's that simple: there is a day in my past, a day many years ago in Santiago de Chile, when I should have died and did not.’
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Emma
Deborah Scroggins
‘When I think of Nasir, I remember the sun. Nothing in that place escaped it.’
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The Nuba
Jack Picone & John Ryle
‘They show people denied access to markets that they enjoyed before the war, people impoverished by the fight to preserve their culture and to assert control of their territory.’
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Arguing With The Dead
Dan Jacobson
‘My childhood was spent in Kimberley, the diamond-mining town in South Africa.In those years most of the mines were no longer being worked’.
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The Life and Death of a Homosexual
Pierre Clastres
‘There was no sweetness in the air that day: the corpse gave off a terrible stench’.
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A Soap Opera From Hell
Clive Sinclair
‘It comes as no surprise when an ophthalmist informs him that the tears he does produce–the consequence of various allergies–are deficient, poor-quality facsimiles of the real thing.’
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Are We Related?
Linda Grant
My mother and I are going shopping, as we have done all our lives. ‘Now...
