Granta 131: The Map is Not the Territory book by Sigrid Rausing

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, Sebastià Jovani, China Miéville, Ottessa Moshfegh and Tracy O'Neill; Poetry by John Ashbery, Peter Gizzi, Kathryn Maris and Sandra Simonds; Photography by Noémie Goudal and Ian Teh; Plus: The second act of Anne Carson's TV show, 'Krapp Hour' Published By Granta Books on 2015

Book details

• Format Paperback
• Pages256 pages
• LanguageEnglish
• ISBN101905881878
• ISBN139781905881871