Gain Granta 132: Possession Fabricated By Sigrid Rausing Represented In E-Text
out I didn't review this after I read it, and now can't recall anything about this one, Demoting to two! A solid issue, It felt a little uneven to me, as the pieces either really grabbed me or really left me feeling "meh, " I could appreciate most all of the pieces even when they didn't move me, So, it really comes down to taste, I especially liked Bullough's rambling travelogue on post revolution Ukraine, Also, Howley's "The Cage of You" which combines her feelings about being pregnant with her research on cage fighters, Weise's "Poem Conveyed" was meta with a light touch, The issue finished off with a couple strong, short pieces, Unferth's "Open Water" reduces a whole relationship into one preemptive streamofconsciousness thought, and alShaykh's "The Mother of All Sins" is a jewellike view into a very specific world, There's a cracker in here about fighting and childbirth, I haven't been back to Granta in a long time and was a little taken aback by how pat a few of these pieces were, one in particular that got off to a great start.
I say this as an unsophisticated reader for whom Granta used to be a struggle and a pleasure to read, For me to put down a piece and think, "Really That's it" makes me wonder if some of the kvetching from the Guardian over the past decade is true.
toto the following, . .
After Maiden by Oliver Bullough
Bandit by Molly Brodak
This is
New by Marc Bojanowski
Possession by Bella Pollan
Wrapped up Only one story kept my interest.
In this issue, Oliver Bullough travels to Ukraine and Crimea in the wake of revolution Kerry Howley writes about cage fighting and giving birth 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.
Another great issue of Granta, All the prose was of high quality, The photo essay was fascinating, Molly Brodak's "Bandit" about a woman dealing with her criminal father, Bella Pollen's "Possession" about her visits by an incubus, and Kerry Howley's "Cage of you", comparing MMA fighting and childbirth were all obvious standouts.eller kanskje egentlig,altså. Et av de bedre nr av Granta jeg har lest, Granta the usual. One of the better issues of late, Each piece was interesting and I was fully engaged, Have. It felt this way about an issue of Granta in a long time, Even the poetry worked for me, especially the women is a construct, A slightly more emaciated issue than usual, but some good stories, The opening essay, reportage in the Ukraine, "After Maidan", is excellent, "The Buddhist" is rhetorically interesting, The final story, Lucy the Liar, is an excerpt from a now published novel, I don't really care for when Granta publishes excerpts I feel cheated of a cohesive story or essay but it did make me interested in perhaps reading the full novel, so it succeeded despite my annoyance.
"This is New" is well constructed and "Possession" is entertaining, An excellent selection of stories, Glad I finally got round to picking up a copy of Granta, Will definitely be subscribing after this, Granta has always been an on and off interest of mine same with being a subscriber to it or reading it here and there in a bookstore or a library and this issue absorbed me from the first piece visit from an English journalist to Ukraine and Crimea just before and after its incorporation in Russia to the last memoir of a a daughter about her law breaking father born in a concentration camp with some superb picture of Indian couples in between 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.
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