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Granta 63: Beasts

What do they make of us, and how do they shape us? Paul Auster on living a dog’s life (‘a symphony of smells’); Hilary Mantel on the mongrel who didn’t realise that his owners had become middle-class; and Sam Toperoff as a tarantula. Plus: Joyce Carol Oates in prison, among men; and Martin Amis on sex without words.

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Paul Auster: Mr Bones
Hilary Mantel: Destroyed
Gary Enns: The Ventriloquist
Gordon Grice: Bat Country
Sam Toperoff: Tarantula
Jackie Kay: Big Milk
Deborah Levy: My Frozen Father
Simon Norfolk: The Scene of the Crime
T. Coraghessan Boyle: Rust
John Barth: 9999
Joyce Carol Oates: After Amnesia
Anwar Iqbal: Fifteen Lashes
Martin Amis: The Coincidence of the Arts
Hans Magnus Enzensberger: Coming to America