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Granta 107
Friday 31 July 2009
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Mitch Epstein's cover image, of a small-town American football game shadowed by belching power-plant towers, slightly misleads. Although his photo-essay on energy and politics in the Bush era stands as a centrepiece, this Granta sounds a less purely mid-Atlantic note than many previous editions.
Contributions from beyond the Anglo-American sphere range from Japanese Nobel laureate Kenzaburo Oe's eerie tale of hanuting via audiotape to Rana Dasgupta's reportage of speeding cars and crawling mindsets in boom-time New Delhi.
However, meaty memoirs of loss lend this number its backbone: Mary Gaitskill on a disappearing cat and other bereavements; Will Self's fine elegy for JG Ballard; Rupert Thomson's quest through memory for an elusive rascal of an uncle.
- 1 BANNED: The most controversial films
- 2 Spotify: 1 million plays, £108 return
- 3 Six Grammys, five years off: Adele puts love before career
- 4 Rich art collectors 'know the price of everything – and the value of nothing'
- 5 Adam Riches: A comedian who strikes fear into his audience
- 6 Mona Lisa's 'twin sister' is discovered – 500 years late
- 7 The artist vandalising advertising with poetry
- 1 Spotify: 1 million plays, £108 return
- 2 How Koscielny became prince of the Emirates
- 3 Apple admits it has a human rights problem
- 4 Mark Steel: If religion is 'marginal', I'm the Pope
- 5 No secularism please, we're British
- 6 Lightning kills an entire football team
- 7 Matthew Norman: There's always the Human Rights Act, Trevor
- 8 Special report: The hungry generation
- 9 I was born to be a killer. Every night I see the Devil in my dreams
- 10 Six Grammys, five years off: Adele puts love before career
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