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← Back to all issuesGranta 87: Jubilee
Autumn 2004
This special edition of Granta celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary with a rich collection of new pieces by some of the writers who helped make its reputation, and by others who may do so in the future.
From this Issue
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Benjamin Pell Versus the Rest of the World
Tim Adams
‘You hear Benjamin Pell long before you see him.’
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Never Againism
Philip Gourevitch
‘Anniversaries can have an importance—a power over us—that we do not control.’
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The View from Yves Hill
William Boyd
‘What is the point of rising early? I congratulate myself if I'm out of bed before midday.’
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Aspirers
Pankaj Mishra
‘Bollywood is part of what our culture has become. We are lying to ourselves all the time.’
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Osama’s War
Wendell Steavenson
‘He, of course, had nothing to be frightened of; if he died as a mujahid he was going to a paradise heaven.’
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Ecstasy
J. Robert Lennon
‘She lay there, her hand on her jeans in the place where she’d seen John’s head coming out of his mother.’
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When I Last Saw Him
Blake Morrison
‘When young, we were impatient with our parents: now we want to atone for our callowness, to take measure of them, to understand which parts of them live on in us.’
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Pilgrim
Patricia Hampl
‘Real travel wants to be dangerous, wants to smoke out the truth of the Other—providing of course you get out alive.’
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Making an Elephant
Graham Swift
‘The death of a father is, in most cases, an inevitable passage of life.’
