Granta 132: Possession (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing) - Softcover

Rausing, Sigrid

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1905881894 ISBN 13: 9781905881895

Publisher: Granta Magazine, 2015

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Granta Magazine
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1905881894
• ISBN 13: 9781905881895
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272