Granta : The Map Is Not the Territory

• Format: Paperback
• Author: Rausing, Sigrid
• ISBN10: 1905881878
• ISBN13: 9781905881871

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. Its also about the borderlands of politics and reason, and of reality and transcendence, in contested territories. Ludmila Ulitskayas diary of cancer treatment in Russia and Israel; Raja Shehadeh on emptying his mothers 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 Miville, Ottessa Moshfegh and Tracy ONeill; Poetry by John Ashbery, Peter Gizzi, Kathryn Maris and Sandra Simonds; Photography by Nomie Goudal and Ian Teh; Plus: The second act of Anne Carsons TV show, Krapp Hour