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"A playground altercation between eleven-year-old boys brings together two sets of Brooklyn parents for a meeting to resolve the matter. At first, diplomatic niceties are observed, but as the meeting progresses, and the rum flows, tensions emerge and the gloves come off, leaving ...

"In Granta 171: Dead Friends, contributors write about their departed mentors and friends. Featuring Renata Adler on Hannah Arendt, Fernanda Eberstadt on Andy Warhol, Michel Houellebecq on Benoît Duteurtre, Tao Lin on Giancarlo DiTrapano, Aatish Taseer on V.S. Naipaul, as well as...

Alan (Christoph Waltz) and Nancy (Kate Winslet) are the parents of Zachary, a young schoolboy whose recent fight with classmate Ethan resulted in two of Ethan's teeth being broken. Convinced that they can find an amiable solution to the problem rather than dragging lawyers into t...

Serge has bought a modern painting for a large sum of money. Marc hates it and cannot believe that a friend of his could possibly want such a work. Yvan attempts, unsuccessfully, to placate both sides. If your friendship is based on tacit mutual agreement, what happens when one p...

A very short novel with the power and resonance of a much longer one, this novel is a profound and moving act of remembrance, a clear-eyed assessment of the hard-edged nature of fame, a meditation on aging - and a wonderfully observant and comic exploration of human foibles.