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← Back to all issuesGranta 62: What Young Men Do
Summer 1998
Two parlous states receive intimate examination in this issue: the first is marriage, the second Indonesia. With: Nicholas Shakespeare on Martha Gellhorn: her convictions, her reporting, and her unmentionable husband; Tim Lott on how one marriage ended; Tim Parks on how another survives; Richard Lloyd-Parry on Indonesia’s savage civil war of severed heads; photographs of Jakarta by Sebastião Salgado; and ‘High Heels’: the fetishist’s story, by Todd McEwen.
From this Issue
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The Separated
Tim Lott
‘It is a short January day, unseasonably warm. The afternoon is getting dark and it isn't yet four o'clock’.
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What Young Men Do
Richard Lloyd Parry
‘Everyone I met in West Kalimantan had tales of Dayak magic’.
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Northern Soul
Simon Armitage
‘I live on the border, between two states. I've lived here all my life, just about, and I know this place like the back of my hand’.
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Story of a Heel
Todd McEwen
‘ My stunningly crummy apartment–there were big holes in the walls and I lay awake nights worrying about how they got there’.
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Where Does Writing Come From?
Richard Ford
‘Occasionally if pushed or annoyed I'll come right out and say it: I make these little buggers up, that's what. So sue me’.
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Martha Gellhorn
Nicholas Shakespeare
‘What clipped the wings of her fiction and grounded her imagination was precisely what made her soar as a journalist.’
