Granta 171: Dead Friends

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This issue of Granta magazine, on the subject of Dead Friends, features writing from leading novelists and story-writers on intimate connections they have lost.

This issue of Granta, Dead Friends, brings vital figures from the past momentarily back into focus. Features include Fernanda Eberstadt on Andy Warhol, Aatish Taseer on V.S. Naipul, Tao Lin on Giancarlo DiTrapano, Michel Houellebecq on Benoit Duteurtre, William Atkins on a new method to dispose of mortal remains, an interview with Renata Adler about her friendship with Hannah Arendt, as well as new fiction from Marlen Haushofer, Yasmina Reza and Gary Indiana (among others).