Granta 63 Beasts The Scene of the Crime: Genocide is a word that has haunted this century, but its definition is contentious and our memory of it selective. A photographic essay by Simon Norfolk introduced by Michael Ignatieff. — Beasts: what they make of us, and how they shape us. Including Paul Auster living a dog?s life; Hilary Mantel on a mongrel breed; Sam T... more »operoff as a tarantula (?Why would we poison anything we weren?t going to eat??)
New Fiction: from John Barth, T.C. Boyle, Jackie Kay, and Martin Amis (?Love without words. A caveman could do it. And it sounded like something that Picasso or Beckett might have pulled off. But Sir Rodney Peel??)
My Frozen Father: a memory of South Africa by Deborah Levy
Punishment: witnessed in the USA and Pakistan by Joyce Carol Oates and Anwar Iqbal (?Although I had been writing against public flogging ever since it began, I wanted to watch it.?)« less