Sigrid Rausing
Sigrid Rausing is Editor and Publisher of Granta magazine and Publisher of Granta Books. She is the author of History, Memory and Identity in Post-Soviet Estonia and the memoirs Everything is Wonderful and Mayhem.
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Essays & Memoir | Issue 132
Introduction: Possession
Sigrid Rausing
‘Possession takes many forms, and at the heart of it is death and dereliction, invasion and submission.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 129
Introduction: Fate
Sigrid Rausing
The last time I wrote about fate was in an article for the Guardian on...
Essays & Memoir | Issue 128
Introduction: American Wild
Sigrid Rausing
When I was seventeen, in 1980, I went on an American road trip with my...
Essays & Memoir | Issue 128
Going Back
Sigrid Rausing
‘We rowed towards it, further out than perhaps we should have, with the particular anarchic freedom of rowing a small rubber dinghy to sea after at least two glasses of wine.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 131
Introduction
Sigrid Rausing
‘The pieces in this issue of Granta are all concerned, in one way or another, with the difference between the world as we see it and the world as it actually is, beyond our faulty memories and tired understanding.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 131
On Sweden, state power and Susan Sontag
Sigrid Rausing
‘Sweden in a sense was a celebrity state because it had become globally symbolic of the welfare state, of high taxes, of sexual education and liberation.’