'A stunning contribution to contemporary literature' Newsweek 'A swashbuckling literary periodical' Vanity Fair 'Quite simply, the most impressive literary magazine of its time' Daily Telegraph 'The last word in literary chic' Sunday Telegraph 'A wonderful thing. Only The New Yorker has an equivalent power to snare you unawares, and you can't fit that into your coat pocket' Time Out
Whether you are starved of it or steeped in it; embarrassed or emboldened by it; whether you commit it or omit it, you can't get away from it. In this issue of Granta, we talk about sex.
John Freeman's criticism has appeared in more than 200 newspapers around the world, including The Guardian, La Vanguardia, and Arcadia. Between 2006 and 2008, he served as president of the National Book Critics Circle. His first book, Shrinking the World (US title: The Tyranny of E-Mail), was published in 2009 by Text Publishing.
A stunning contribution to contemporary literature
*Newsweek*
A swashbuckling literary periodical
*Vanity Fair*
Quite simply, the most impressive literary magazine of its time
*Daily Telegraph*
The last word in literary chic
*Sunday Telegraph*
A wonderful thing. Only The New Yorker has an equivalent power to
snare you unawares, and you can't fit that into your coat
pocket
*Time Out*
The mixture of memoir and fiction is unusually successful. Jeanette
Winterson's playful story of sex among the Greek gods, is the best
I've read by her; Adam Foulds's portrait of an angry priest
confirms there's no skin Foulds can't get under; Rebecca
Lenkiewicz, like Roberto Bolaño, crams into a mere two pages an
entire lifetime of roads suggested by a stranger's finger, roads
beckoned down but not taken. There is humour in Marie
Darrieussecq's exquisite piece, and a tender acknowledgement, in
Mark Doty's memoir of a dead lover, "The Unwriteable", that these
are things, in the end, inaccessible to language, beyond the realm
even of the best writer's words. Common to many pieces is a
recognition that sex is a way to shatter our loneliness; also, that
the absence of sex is as central to its experience as doubt is to
faith
*Daily Telegraph*
You can't judge a literary magazine by its cover ... Any fears that
editor John Freeman is inching into Erotic Review territory prove
unfounded ... Most of the works are about sexuality, or the context
of sex, rather than act itself ... Two stories really stand out.
Herta Müller's Zeppelin is a brief but evocative and affirming hint
at how sex survives, for a while at least among Germans in a
Russian labour camp after the war. And Victor LaValle's story Long
Distance manages to be simultaneously edgy, smart and very funny
about sex
*Evening Standard*
Billie Segal's cover photo teases the bag of treats within, which
includes fiction by Roberto Bolaño, Herta Müller, Adam Foulds,
Jeanette Winterson, memoirs and non-fiction by Mark Doty, Brian
Chikwava, Michael Symmons Roberts, Victor LaValle, Emmanuel
Carrère, Rupert Thomson, and artwork from Jo Broughton, Dave Eggers
and Yann Faucher
*Examiner.com*
Four fine pieces of writing: a novel excerpt by the Nobel laureate
Herta Müller, a short story by Natsuo Kirino, an essay on celibacy
by Michael Symmons Roberts and an extraordinary personal history by
Brian Chikwava about the origins and symbolism of the iskokotsha ,
a dance developed in Zimbabwe at the end of the 1970s ... all find
original and complex questions to ask
*Irish Times*
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