Granta 88: Mothers
This issue of Granta includes Edmund White on his mother’s girdle, John McGahern on his mother’s religion and Alexandra Fuller on giving birth in Zambia. Plus: a photoessay on the objects collected from the streets of New York by one of its greatest reporters, Joseph Mitchell.
In this issue
Ian Jack: Motley Notes
John McGahern: The Lanes
Edmund White: The Merry Widow
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Grief of Strangers
Alexandra Fuller: The View from this End
Rodrigo Fresán: Never Neverland
Ian McEwan: Lily
Masha Gessen: Mutations
Paul Maliszewski: The Collector
Steve Featherstone: The Collector
Paul Theroux: Mother of the Year
Jim Lewis: Notes from the Land of Nod
Richard Beard,: How to Stop Your Mother-in-Law from Drowning
Ryszard Kapuscinski: When There is Talk of 1945
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How to Stop Your Mother-in-law from Drowning
An old joke eventually vanishes
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When There is Talk of 1945
The writer dreams of shoes, and shooting
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Mutations
The bad gene my mother gave me
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The Merry Widow
Young Edmund tightens the maternal corset
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The Grief of Strangers
Trying to please mother with a man