About this ebook
Granta's spring issue, guest-edited by award-winning writer Rana Dasgupta, explores membranes of the tissue, self, collective, nation, species and cosmos.
It features new poetry by Andrew McMillan, Tishani Doshi and Ida Brjel, a new translation of Vladimir Mayakovsky by Ilya Kaminsky and Katie Farris, as well as photography from Anita Khemka, Arturo Soto and Mnica de la Torre.
Granta 151: Membranes showcases cutting-edge fiction from Lydia Davis, Fatin Abbas, Steven Heighton, J. Robert Lennon, Mahreen Sohail and Chloe Wilson, plus a host of thought-provoking essays:
- Emanuele Coccia on birth, metamorphosis and the very strange miracle of life
- Mark Doty on gentrification and homelessness in New York City
- Anouchka Grose on infidelity and the idea of the unwanted third
- Ruchir Joshi on all those kids his son once was
- Kapka Kassabova on Lake Ohrid
- Anita Roy on the great crested newt
- Esther Woolfson on the relationship between humans and animals
Plus: Eyal Weizman in conversation with Rana Dasgupta, on contemporary architectural strategies for repelling and dividing people.
It features new poetry by Andrew McMillan, Tishani Doshi and Ida Brjel, a new translation of Vladimir Mayakovsky by Ilya Kaminsky and Katie Farris, as well as photography from Anita Khemka, Arturo Soto and Mnica de la Torre.
Granta 151: Membranes showcases cutting-edge fiction from Lydia Davis, Fatin Abbas, Steven Heighton, J. Robert Lennon, Mahreen Sohail and Chloe Wilson, plus a host of thought-provoking essays:
- Emanuele Coccia on birth, metamorphosis and the very strange miracle of life
- Mark Doty on gentrification and homelessness in New York City
- Anouchka Grose on infidelity and the idea of the unwanted third
- Ruchir Joshi on all those kids his son once was
- Kapka Kassabova on Lake Ohrid
- Anita Roy on the great crested newt
- Esther Woolfson on the relationship between humans and animals
Plus: Eyal Weizman in conversation with Rana Dasgupta, on contemporary architectural strategies for repelling and dividing people.
About the author
Rana Dasgupta is an award-winning, best-selling writer. His novels include Tokyo Cancelled and Solo, winner of the 2010 Commonwealth Writers' Prize. His non-fiction book Capital won the 2017 Ryszard Kapuscinski Award for Literary Reportage.
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