Granta 131: The Map Is Not the Territory

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 Ramallah; Janine di Giovanni remembers Iraq before and after the American invasion; Charles Glass on the jihadist occupation of an Armenian village in Syria; Fiction by Jesse Ball, Kevin Canty, Jon Fosse, Sebasti Jovani, China Mi ville, Ottessa Moshfegh and Tracy O'Neill; Poetry by John Ashbery, Peter Gizzi, Kathryn Maris and Sandra Simonds; Photography by No mie Goudal and Ian Teh; Plus: The second act of Anne Carson's TV show, 'Krapp Hour'

Author: Sigrid Rausing
Publisher: Granta Books
Published: 04/18/2015
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.70w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781905881871