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Psychoanalysis famously privileges the vertical relationship between a child (the patient) and their parents over the seemingly equal and unproblematic horizontal connections between siblings. This issue of
Granta tells a different story - one of chaotic hierarchies, a zerosum game of sibling competition alternating with tenderness; lifelong relationships that nevertheless can sometimes break.
Featuring memoir by
Sara Baume,
Suzanne Brøgger (Tr.
Saskia Vogel),
Emma Cline,
Omer Friedlander,
Charlie Gilmour,
Lauren Groff,
Will Harris,
Lauren John Joseph,
Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow,
Jamal Mahjoub,
Andrew Miller,
John Niven,
Vanessa Onwuemezi,
Karolina Ramqvist (Tr.
Caroline Waight),
Taiye Selasi,
Angelique Stevens.
With fiction by
Colin Barrett and
Ben Pester, a graphic short story by
Lee Lai; poetry by
Will Harris,
K Patrick, and
Natalie Shapero, and photoessays by
Sebastián Bruno introduced by
Sophie Mackintosh and
Julian Slagman introduced by
Alice Hattrick.
About the author
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.
