Granta Magazine 74: Confessions of a Middle-Aged Ecstasy Eater

The Story

In the latest issue of the magazine that Vogue called the pinnacle of literary and political writing, a celebrated writer makes an anonymous confession and defends a habit: his son supplies him with Ecstasy. Nicholas Shakespeare discovers the evil of his ancestors, Alexander Stille examines the godlike role of poets in Somalia, and David Feuer writes on trying -- and failing -- to be a shrink in a Hasidic community. Also included is new fiction from A. M. Holmes and Judith Hermann.