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Granta 14: Autobiography

‘The Americans call photography an art. But what I’m doing is not art. How can I talk of these photographs as art objects? These are real people. I have inhaled their suffering.’ Don McCullin, ‘A Life in Photographs’. Plus: Beryl Bainbridge, Michael Ignatieff, William Boyd, Eddie Limonov, Todd McEwen, Jaroslav Seifert, Doris Lessing, and others.

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In this issue

Norman Lewis: Jackdaw Cake
Raymond Carver: Where he was: Memories of my Father
Beryl Bainbridge: Funny Noises with our Mouths
Michael Ignatieff: August in my Father’s House
Doris Lessing: Impertinent Daughters
Vladimir Rybakov: Family Politics
Breyten Breytenbach: Punishable Innocence
Todd McEwen: Paramilitarism in Costa del Burger
Eddie Limonov: Eddie-baby
William Boyd: Alpes Maritimes
Josef Škvorecký: Failed Saxophonist
Reinaldo Arenas: A Poet in Cuba
Christian McEwen: The Business of Mourning
Jaroslav Seifert: Skating with Lenin
Adam Mars-Jones: Weaning
Bernard Crick: On the Orwell Trail