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← Back to all issuesGranta 66: Truth + Lies
Summer 1999
This issue includes the original exposé, by Elena Lappin, of Binjamin Wilomirski’s bogus Holocaust memoir which William Sutcliffe described, in the Independent on Sunday, as ‘the most gripping thing I read this year.’ Photographer Jillian Edelstein reports on the painful process of truth-telling in South Africa, Also: fiction by Jayne Anne Phillips, Claire Messud, Stacey Richter, and Javier Marías.
From this Issue
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Bad Nature
Javier Marías
‘I saw him slipping into belligerence, the ghost of James Dean descended upon him and sent a shiver down my spine.’
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Goal 666
Stacey Richter
‘I began to feel almost ill with a kind of unpleasant pleasure, like being tickled.’
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How Pinkie Killed a Man
Adewale Maja-Pearce
‘It was two years since I'd been in Zambia and I was looking forward to seeing Ronnie and his cousin, Pinkie’.
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The Snow Geese
William Fiennes
‘Are these great journeys examples of learned or inherited behaviour?’
