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← Back to all issuesGranta 131: The Map Is Not the Territory
Spring 2015
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.
Cover image © Mark Dorf, from Axiom & Simulation
From this Issue
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The Gentlest Village
Jesse Ball
‘You are learning – learning a great deal. It is too much for you, so your body bows out. Then you wake up and you can continue.’
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Position Paper
John Ashbery
‘This is my outfit. / Government spooks did the rest. Didn’t you know?’
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Her Lousy Shoes
Tracy O’Neill
‘On good days, he could believe that that was exactly what he appeared to be: pedestrian, a pedestrian, a walker, walking, going places, on the ups, possessing two healthy feet at least.’
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It was discovered that gut bacteria were responsible
Kathryn Maris
‘this dream that might have been pleasant for an / 8-year-old could instead emerge as a nightmare for a woman / on the brink of menopause’
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The Florida Motel
Kevin Canty
‘Suddenly she understood what she was doing here. She was among strangers, the place where Bill had chosen to spend his life.’
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Mother’s House
Raja Shehadeh
‘It was her last service, last sacrifice, to a husband who required so much from her throughout their life together. But we could not succeed.’
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After Zero Hour
Janine di Giovanni
‘It seemed there was a little piece of Iraqi earth inside me that refused to let me go.’
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Observatoires
Noémie Goudal
In her series Observatoires, Noémie Goudal places stairs, pyramids and domes in natural, isolated, timeless spaces.
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Release the Darkness to New Lichen
Peter Gizzi
‘was it wind or a creature / am I here or is it over’
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Krapp Hour (Act 2)
Anne Carson
‘this is my theory of her awake all night worrying about little wild animals active in the dark’
The second instalment of Anne Carson’s fictional TV show.
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The Archive
Sebastià Jovani
‘The aim of this study is to visualise a means of understanding the essential aspects of a literary text.’
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The Buzzard’s Egg
China Miéville
‘I can’t remember: did a young man destroy his miserable god, or did a god free its worshipper and take his blood and his bones?’
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Model Reconstruction of Ancient Rome
Sandra Simonds
‘Here I am. Sephora, symbol of stolen work.’
