Granta 95: Loved Ones

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Jonathan Taylor on a boyhood spent caring for a father with Alzheimer s disease ( Who are you?); Georgia Blain on her Australian teacher's love for Chinese Communism; Katya Krausova on the Slovak survivors of the Holocaust; James Lasdun on Forest Lawns cemetery, inspiration for Evelyn Waugh's The Loved One. (How does Los Angeles bury its dead today?); Tim Adams on a formative influence; Melanie Macfadyen on all the houses she's ever lived in: from Dorset to Potsdam: Jeremy Seabrook on the twin brother he hardly knew: Sean Wilsey on his devotion to cycling. And new fiction by David Malouf, Rebecca Miller and Claire Keegan.

Ian Jack has edited Granta since 1995. He began his career in journalism on a weekly newspaper in Scotland in the 1960s. Between 1970 and 1986 he worked for the Sunday Times as a reporter, editor, feature writer and foreign correspondent (mainly in the Indian Subcontinent). He was a co-founder of the Independent on Sunday in 1989 and edited that newspaper between 1991 and 1995. His awards in Britain include those for reporter, journalist and editor of the year. A book of his writing about Britain, Before the Oil Ran Out, was published in 1987. He lives with his family in London.

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