Granta 161 - by Sigrid Rausing (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

This issue of Granta tells the story of
siblings: chaotic hierarchies, zero-sum games of competition alternating
with tenderness, lifelong relationships that nevertheless can sometimes
break.
Psychoanalysis famously privileges the vertical
relationship between a child (the patient) and their parents over the
seemingly equal and unproblematic horizontal connections between
siblings. This issue of Granta tells a different story - one of
chaotic hierarchies, a zerosum game of sibling competition alternating
with tenderness; lifelong relationships that nevertheless can sometimes
break.

Featuring memoir by Sara Baume, Suzanne Brøgger (Tr. Saskia Vogel), Emma Cline, Omer Friedlander, Charlie Gilmour, Lauren Groff, Will Harris, Lauren John Joseph, Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow, Jamal Mahjoub, Andrew Miller, John Niven, Vanessa Onwuemezi, Karolina Ramqvist (Tr. Caroline Waight), Taiye Selasi, Angelique Stevens.

With fiction by Colin Barrett and Ben Pester, a graphic short story by Lee Lai; poetry by Will Harris, K Patrick, and Natalie Shapero, and photoessays by Sebastián Bruno introduced by Sophie Mackintosh and Julian Slagman introduced by Alice Hattrick.

About the Author

Sigrid Rausing is Editor and Publisher of Granta magazine and Publisher of Granta Books. She is the author of History, Memory and Identity in Post-Soviet Estonia and the memoirs Everything is Wonderful and Mayhem.