Granta 131

Published in book form four times a year, Granta is respected around the world for its mix of outstanding new fiction, poetry, reportage, memoir, photography and art.

This issue of Granta is about the difference between the world as we see it and the world as it actually is, beyond our faulty memories and tired understanding. It's also about the borderlands of politics and reason, and of reality and transcendence, in contested territories.Ludmila Ulitskaya's diary of cancer treatment in Russia and Israel Raja Shehadeh on emptying his mother's house in RamallahJanine di Giovanni remembers Iraq before and after the American invasion Charles Glass on the jihadist occupation of an Armenian village in SyriaFiction by Jesse Ball, Kevin Canty, Jon Fosse, Sebastia Jovani, China Mieville, Ottessa Moshfegh and Tracy O'NeillPoetry by John Ashbery, Peter Gizzi, Kathryn Maris and Sandra SimondsPhotography by Noemie Goudal and Ian Teh Plus: The second act of Anne Carson's TV show, 'Krapp Hour'

Sigrid Rausing is Editor and Publisher of Granta magazine and Publisher of Granta and Portobello Books. She is the author of History, Memory and Identity in Post-Soviet Estonia: The End of a Collective Farm and Everything is Wonderful, which has been translated into four different languages.

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• Allen & Unwin Granta 131 book Literature English 256 pages