Granta 131: The Map Is Not the Territory

· The Magazine of New Writing Book 131 · Granta
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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.

Ludmila Ulitskaya's diary of cancer treatment in Russia and Israel

Raja Shehadeh on emptying his mother's house in Ramallah

Janine di Giovanni remembers Iraq before and after the American invasion

Charles Glass on the jihadist occupation of an Armenian village in Syria

Fiction by Jesse Ball, Kevin Canty, Jon Fosse, Sebasti Jovani, China Miville, Ottessa Moshfegh and Tracy O'Neill

Poetry by John Ashbery, Peter Gizzi, Kathryn Maris and Sandra Simonds

Photography by Nomie Goudal and Ian Teh

Plus: The second act of Anne Carson's TV show, 'Krapp Hour'

About the author

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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