5.0 out of 5 stars
Investigative journalism, essays and fiction, December 20, 2011
Granta magazine is published quarterly and frequently contains writing, both nonfiction and fiction, of real excellence and importance. I am not a subscriber; rather I pick up those issues that contain articles of particular interest to me. Many issues of Granta are "themed" - the theme of this issue is "Fathers".
Detailed contents of this issue:
- David Goldblatt: Doing the Paperwork, the author faces up to his father's violent death
- Benjamin Markovits on high-school sports, Texan-style
- Francesca Segal: In my Fathers Footsteps, the author looks for the Brooklyn of her father's youth
- Ruchir Joshi recalls the many faces of Puppa
- Siri Hustvedt: My Father Myself, on the anxiety of influence and the nature of fatherhood
- Michael Bywater wonders if friendship is women's work
- Writers on photographs of their fathers: Alison Bechdel, Olga Grushin, David Heatley, Reina James, Jonathan Lethem, Adam Mars-Jones, Jon McGregor, Joseph O'Neill and Ali Smith
- Kevin Cummins photographs the Runcorn Wrestling Academy and John Naughton gets in the ring
- Fiction by Emma Donoghue, Kirsty Gunn, James Lasdun, Daniyal Mueenuddin and Justin Torres
- Poetry by Paul Farley and Will Self's fetish object
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