Granta 114: Aliens
First there was the traveller; then the word was emigrants. In America, they turned into immigrants. And today - in many parts of the world - they are (we are) aliens. From somewhere else. At odds with and yet fully inside of another culture. At home nowhere.
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© Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin
Fiction
Aravind Adiga Last Man in Tower
Roberto Bolaño Beach
Chris Dennis Here is What You Do
Nami Mun The Anniversary
Julie Otsuka Come, Japanese!
Madeleine Thien James
Memoir/Non-fiction
Mark Gevisser Edenvale
Robert Macfarlane Walking on the West Bank
Dinaw Mengestu They Always Come in the Night
Philip Oltermann The B.O.G. Standard
Ann Patchett The Mercies
Paul Theroux English Hours: Nothing Personal
Binyavanga Wainaina One Day I Will Write About This Place
Photography
Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin Contacts
Afshin Dehkordi Inland, Iran
Plus poetry by Adam Zagajewski and Juan Felipe Herrera
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FICTION
– Rabbit Cycling, a haunting new short story by Madison Smart Bell.
– Kyoko Nakajima responds to Julie Otsuka's story ‘Come, Japanese’.
MEMOIR
– Sarah Manguso on the alientation of a chronic illness.
– Leo Mellor explores the return of an elusive beast to Britian’s forests.
INTERVIEWS
– Madison Smartt Bell, a previous Best Young American Novelist.
– Chris Dennis, whose first published story appears in this issue.
– Philip Oltermann on English bathrooms and German cars.
– Ann Patchett on the nuns that taught her to read.
DESIGN
– Artistic director Michael Salu illustrates the thought process behind this issue’s cover.
PHOTOGRAPHY
– ‘Contacts’ by Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, plus a special podcast on our artwork.
–‘Walking on the West Bank’, from Robert Macfarlane’s essay.
We will add more web exclusives to this column over the next six weeks, as well as a small selection of articles from the print magazine.
– Free to read from the print edition:
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One Day I Will Write About This Place
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Last Man in Tower
New fiction
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English Hours: Nothing Personal
Chaos and the three day week.
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Here Is What You Do
Intimacy in a Texas prison.
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Walking on the West Bank
Exploring the hills of Ramallah.
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They Always Come in the Night
Violence in the Congo.
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Edenvale
Homosexuality under Apartheid.
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Beach
Translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer.
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Come, Japanese!
Japanese mail-order brides ship out.
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The Mercies
Revisiting the student-teacher relationship.
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The Anniversary
New life in an old relationship.
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Half-Mexican
Poem