Granta 136 by Sigrid Rausing

Granta 136 by Sigrid Rausing

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Granta 136 by Sigrid Rausing

What happens after you fall in love? The essays and fiction in this issue of Granta look at the risk and reward of loving someone. 'Whatever Happened to Interracial Love' by the late African-American filmmaker Kathleen Collins, captures the atmosphere of the Civil Rights movement in New York and the dangerous risks taken by its activists. In an iconic essay 'Africa's Future Has No Place for Stupid Black Men' young Nigerian writer Pwaangulongii Daoud delivers a passionate elegy for his friend C-Boy, a gay activist in homophobic Nigeria. And Claire Hajaj describes a perilous journey from Raqqa to Allepo to Beirut, for a refugee from Islamic State. Suzanne Brogger describes the pain of being stalked; Emma Cline depicts a taut sibling relationship; Steven Dunn on a violent childhood; and Gwendoline Riley on first love. Also in this issue: FICTION Patrick Flanery, Victor Lodato; POETRY Vahni Capildeo, Melissa Lee-Houghton, Sylvia Legris and Hoa Nguyen; PHOTOGRAPHY Jacob Aue Sobol with an introduction by Joanna Kavenna

Sigrid Rausing is Granta magazine's Acting Editor and Publisher, as well as Granta and Portobello Books. She is the author of the forthcoming Grove Atlantic and Bonniers books History, Memory, and Identity in Post-Soviet Estonia: The End of a Communal Farm and Everything is Beautiful.

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ISBN 13 9781905881970
ISBN 10 1905881975
Title Granta 136
Author Sigrid Rausing
Series Granta: The Magazine Of New Writing
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Granta Magazine
Year published 2016-07-14
Number of pages 256
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.