Granta 132

Here are fifteen takes on the human drive to possess - a person, a home, a territory - and the many ways we become possessed - by ideas, by desires, by spirits.

In this issue, Oliver Bullough travels to Ukraine and Crimea in the wake of revolution; Kerry Howley writes about cage fighting and giving birth in Texas; Molly Brodak remembers her father, a compulsive gambler and failed bank robber; and Bella Pollen describes being visited repeatedly - by an incubus. Here are fifteen takes on the human drive to possess - a person, a home, a territory -and the many ways we become possessed - by ideas, by desires, by spirits.Also featuring fiction by Marc Bojanowski, Patrick deWitt, Greg Jackson, Daisy Jacobs, Alan Rossi, Hanan al-Shaykh and Deb Olin Unferth; along with poetry by Rae Armantrout, Angelica Freitas and Jillian Weise; and Photography by Max Pinckers, with an introduction by Sonia Faleiro.

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.

Here are fifteen takes on the human drive to possess - a person, a home, a territory - and the many ways we become possessed - by ideas, by desires, by spirits.

In this issue, Oliver Bullough travels to Ukraine and Crimea in the wake of revolution; Kerry Howley writes about cage fighting and giving birth in Texas; Molly Brodak remembers her father, a compulsive gambler and failed bank robber; and Bella Pollen describes being visited repeatedly - by an incubus. Here are fifteen takes on the human drive to possess - a person, a home, a territory -and the many ways we become possessed - by ideas, by desires, by spirits.Also featuring fiction by Marc Bojanowski, Patrick deWitt, Greg Jackson, Daisy Jacobs, Alan Rossi, Hanan al-Shaykh and Deb Olin Unferth; along with poetry by Rae Armantrout, Angelica Freitas and Jillian Weise; and Photography by Max Pinckers, with an introduction by Sonia Faleiro.

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 132 book Literature English 272 pages
• Allen & Unwin Granta 132 book Literature English 272 pages