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Granta: Bad Company (The Magazine of New Writing, 78)
Granta Bad Company - The Magazine of New Writing, 78 Author:Ian Jack (Editor), Deirdre O'Callaghan (Photographer) "Does the kind of writing and photography that examines the lives of people less fortunate than the writer or photographer changes those lives for the better? In this issue of Granta, Dierdre O'Callaghan's photographs are of men who still live in what would once have been called a dosshouse (though of a superior kind), but now goes ... more »under the name of hostel. Will the pictures "do good"? It's the wrong question to ask, but they may do - partly because, paradoxically, they don't set out with that intention; these aren't pictures of a "problem" but of people who, though less lucky are as funny, various, and sad as the rest of us. That thought in itself will at least do no harm."
Content:
I gave the names / Adrian Leftwich --
What the sky sees / Jon McGregor --
Dervishes / Rory Stewart --
Marek Marek / Olga Tokarczuk --
The way you do it / Rachel Cusk --
Hide the can / Deirdre O'Callaghan --
The great return / Milan Kundera --
Zaghrouda / Jonathan Tel --
The little plate of childhood / Todd McEwen --
Give it up for Billy / Edmund White --
Several anecdotes about my wife / Gary Shteyngart --