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American Berserk
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America was a country dreamed up by religious fanatics and realised through violence. Philip Roth gave a name for this 'blessed rage for purity': the 'indigenous American Berserk'. Granta 176 looks at what's left of this vicious drive, in all its most virulent and florid strains....
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America was a country dreamed up by religious fanatics and realised through violence. Philip Roth gave a name for this 'blessed rage for purity': the 'indigenous American Berserk'.
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America was a country dreamed up by religious fanatics and realised through violence. Philip Roth gave a name for this 'blessed rage for purity': the 'indigenous American Berserk'.
Granta 176 looks at what's left of this vicious drive, in all its most virulent and florid strains. The American Berserk is the true psychogeography of the country, its dark underbelly. It's what's not fit to print, the stories that cannot be squeezed into the frame of nightly news. For years America has tried to tame itself – commodifying its rage through leisure and politics – but the wild side remains.
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ISBN: 9781909889828
Publisher: Granta Magazine
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 10 September 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Granta Magazine
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 145.0mm
Height: 210.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 256
About the Author
Thomas Meaney is the editor of Granta. He has reported for the New Yorker and Harper's magazine, and contributes regularly to the London Review of Books. In 2022, he received the Robert B. Silvers Prize for Journalism.
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