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Possession
Bella Pollen
‘The brain is a bureaucratic organ with an almost neurotic determination to balance its books. To account to the department of logic for terror, it calls on the office of imagination to conjure up a worthy vision.’
To Rio de Janeiro
Gonçalo M. Tavares
‘In the end, what one understands in Rio de Janeiro is that joy is the only coherence of a living being.’
To Zagreb
Yoko Tawada
‘You didn’t know where you wanted to end up, had never considered how much time you had left.’
A Woman’s Worth
Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
Rajeswari Sunder Rajan on the evolution of feminist judgments in India.
From The Abstract Humanities
Sandra Simonds
‘let us / build the openwork fabric of our garden / on the fear in the body’
Numb
Lauren Schenkman
‘She felt things under the skin: scars where the body had torn during childbirth, clumps of cellulite, lobules and ducts.’
Famished Eels
Mary Rokonadravu
‘After one hundred years, this is what I have: a daguerreotype of her in bridal finery; a few stories told and retold in plantations, kitchens, hospitals, airport lounges.’
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.’
Traces II
Ian Teh
‘I am interested in the dissonance created between the ambivalent images and the historical, economic and scientific narrative that accompanies them.’