Sigrid Rausing

A searingly powerful memoir about the impact of addiction on a family. In the summer of 2012 a woman named Eva was found dead in the London townhouse she shared with her husband, Hans K. Rausing. The couple had struggled with drug addiction for years, often under the glare of tabloid headlines. Now, writing with singular clarity and restraint, Hans' sister, the editor and publisher Sigrid Rausing, tries to make sense of what happened. In Mayhem, she asks the difficult questions those close to the world of addiction must face. "Who can help the addict, consumed by a shaming hunger, a need beyond control? There is no medicine: the drugs are the medicine. And who can help their families, so implicated in the self-destruction of the addict? Who can help when the very notion of 'help' becomes synonymous with an exercise of power; a familial police state; an end to freedom, in the addict's mind?" An eloquent and timely attempt to understand the conundrum of addiction--and a memoir as devastating as it is riveting.

Mayhem

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American Wild: it can kill you, or exhilarate you. It's always there, a character in its own right in the great unfolding narrative of American writing. This issue of Granta is dedicated to stories of the wild, from MELINDA MOUSTAKIS on gutting fish in Alaska to CLAIRE VAYE WATKINS on a lost child in a dystopian California. Also: ANTHONY DOERR on a family of pioneers in Idaho, ADAM NICOLSON on tracking wolves in New Mexico and DAVID TREUER on cage fighting and his Ojibwe heritage.

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This issue of Granta is about time and about ghosts - the ghosts of our past selves, the shadows of past injuries, the ghosts of history, the ghosts in the machine. André Aciman remembers Rome Ahmet Altan on his life sentence Bernard Cooper on Ambien and sleep-eating Maggie O'Farrell on damaging her 'sacred' joint Vasily Grossman's Stalingrad, a companion to his epic Life and Fate Amos Oz in conversation with Shira Hadad Inigo Thomas on the fall of Singapore PLUS NEW FICTION from Anne Carson, Steven Dunn, Sheila Heti, Eugene Lim, Sandra Newman, Maria Reva and Jess Row POETRY from Cortney Lamar Charleston and Jana Prikryl PHOTOGRAPHY from Monika Bulaj, with an introduction by Janine di Giovanni

Ghosts

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In this issue, Oliver Bullough travels to Ukraine and Crimea in the wake of revolution; Kerry Howley writes about cage fighting and giving birth in Texas; Molly Brodak remembers her father, a compulsive gambler and failed bank robber; and Bella Pollen describes being visited - repeatedly - by an incubus. Here are fifteen takes on the human drive to possess - a person, a home, a territory - and the many ways we become possessed - by ideas, by desires, by spirits. Also featuring fiction by Marc Bojanowski, Patrick DeWitt, Greg Jackson, Daisy Jacobs, Alan Rossi, Hanan al-Shaykh and Deb Olin Unferth; along with poetry by Rae Armantrout, Anglica Freitas and Jillian Weise; and Photography by Max Pinckers, with an introduction by Sonia Faleiro.

Possession

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Granta 158: In the Family features Fatima Bhutto on grief and loss; Chris Dennis on his teenage relationship with an older man; Charif Majdalani (trans. Ruth Diver) on the fragmenting situation in Beirut and Will Rees on a journey through the NHS in search of a diagnosis. This winter issue includes fiction by Nathan Harris, Julie Hecht, Sheila Heti, Moses McKenzie, Debbie Urbanski and Kate Zambreno, as well as poetry by Akwaeke Emezi, Claire Schwartz and Dawn Watson. A poem by Rachel Long introduces a photoessay by Lewis Khan, and Damian Le Bas introduces a photoessay made by the Herak family.

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Granta 163: Best of Young British Novelists 5 celebrates the twenty most significant writers under forty working in the UK in 2023. Previous issues in this series have earmarked rising stars like Kazuo Ishiguro, Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith and Jeanette Winterson. This cohort was selected by judges Tash Aw, Rachel Cusk, Brian Dillon, Helen Oyeyemi and Sigrid Rausing. The fifth generation is Graeme Armstrong, Jennifer Atkins, Sara Baume, Sarah Bernstein, Natasha Brown, Eleanor Catton, Eliza Clark, Tom Crewe, Lauren Aimee Curtis, Camilla Grudova, Isabella Hammad, Sophie Mackintosh, Anna Metcalfe, Thomas Morris, Derek Owusu, K Patrick, Yara Rodrigues Fowler, Saba Sams, Olivia Sudjic and Eley Williams. With portraits by Alice Zoo and cover artwork by Donal Sturt.

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Since the first 'Best of Young British Novelists' issue in 1983, Granta has championed the work of authors who have changed the landscape of British literature. In 1983, featured writers included Kazuo Ishiguro, Salman Rushdie, Julian Barnes, Martin Amis and Pat Barker, among many others. Subsequent editions have highlighted the work of Zadie Smith, Nicola Barker, Ben Okri, Jeanette Winterson and others. In 2023, we will introduce readers around the world to a cohort of outstanding new British voices. The judging panel for 2023 features authors Tash Aw, Rachel Cusk, Brian Dillon and Helen Oyeyemi, and will be chaired by Granta editor Sigrid Rausing.

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We call ourselves the Fellowship, or sometimes the Church of God, but the world knew us as the Plymouth Brethren - Ken Follett These Mennonite colonies are self-policed, except in cases of murder. The bishop and the elders came up with a solution to the problem of how to punish the offenders: they would lock all nine men into sheds and basements for three or four decades - Miriam Toews Ivan Chistyakov: diary of a Gulag prison guard Sarah Gerard: going 'Diamond' with Amway Matilda Gustavsson: a false religious miracle Lauren Hough: growing up in the Family Aatish Taseer: with the Brahmins of Benares New fiction by Luke Kennard, Lara Vapnyar and Adam Thorpe Poetry: Will Alexander, Fen Sun Chen, Kelly Schirmann and Javier Zamora Plus, Emmanuel Carrre on photographer Darcy Padilla, and the relationship with her subject, Julie Baird Photography by Tomas van Houtryve and Franoise Huguier, introduced by Eliza Griswold and A.M. Homes

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Featuring non-fiction by Lydia Davis, Brian Dillon, Wiam El-Tamami, Peter Englund (tr. Sigrid Rausing), Diana Evans, Tabitha Lasley, Adam Mars-Jones, Maartje Scheltens, Anjan Sundaram, Y-Dang Troeung, Ed Vulliamy and Ada Wordsworth. Fiction by Nicola Barker, Mazen Maarouf (tr. Mazen Maarouf with Laura Susijn), Adle Rosenfeld (tr. Jeffrey Zuckerman) and Brywan Washington poetry by Oluwaseun Olayiwola and Martha Sprackland. Photography by Suzie Howell (introduced by A.K. Blakemore), James Berrington and Sama Beydoun. Cover artwork by Etel Adnan.

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Las memorias de la editora Sigrid Rausing sobre el impacto de la adicción a las drogas en una familia. ¿A qué se parece la tragedia cuando se entrelaza con el privilegio? Durante años, la editora Sigrid Rausing observó impotente cómo su hermano, Hans, y la esposa de este, Eva, sucumbían a las drogas hasta que un día Eva apareció muerta en su mansión de Londres. Los Rausing son los nietos del fundador de la empresa sueca Tetra Pak y herederos, por tanto, de una enorme fortuna. La prensa amarilla devoró esta historia de multimillonarios, muerte, adicción, juicios y conflictos familiares, pero pocos entendieron el sufrimiento de los que conocían a la joven pareja. Estas memorias son el intento de Sigrid Rausing para comprender qué les pasó a su hermano y a su mujer. La autora resigue su tragedia familiar y con una sabiduría humilde se hace preguntas dolorosas y elocuentes sobre la adicción, pero también sobre el trasfondo de lacondición humana. ¿Cómo se vive con una adicción en la familia? ¿Cómo ayudar cuando hacerlo implica imponer un estado policial, eliminar la libertad del adicto? ¿Qué implica sobrevivir a la adicción de tu pareja? ¿Cómo controlamos o cómo nos rendimos ante nuestros destinos soñados? Reseñas: «Unas memorias intensas, líricas y lúcidas que plantean cuestiones dolorosas sobre la culpa, la inocencia y el juicio. Maelstrom nos recuerda lo difícil que puede llegar a ser distinguir uno del otro.» Siri Hustvedt «Ahora que todo ha pasado, me sorprendo pensando en la historia y los recuerdos familiares; en los relatos que cohesionan a las familias y los actos capaces de desintegrarlas.» Sigrid Rausing «Una historia única e inolvidable.» The Times «Sorprendente: poderoso y discreto.» The Observer «Rausing retrata la escena con una delicadeza pictórica, para después dar un paso atrás y analizar las implicaciones de lo que ha revelado.» The Guardian «Fascinante, perspicaz, excepcionalmente articulada. Rausing es una experta antropóloga.» The Telegraph «Un libro valiente, iluminado por la notable franqueza de la autora.» The New Statesman «Cautivadora. Maelstrom es profundamente apasionada en su imposible intento de invocar una vitalidad salvadora en medio de un caos agonizante. Un libro valiente, elegante e inspirado.» Andrew Solomon

Maelstrom

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This issue of Granta looks at the ways we feel politically - and asks whether it's possible to feel any other way. When people predicate their politics only on what they feel and can no longer be swayed by expertise, reason or facts, what results would seem the most unfeeling sort of politics. Rage, resentment, hysteria, guilt, shame, all figure highly in our conflicted times, as does the intemperate adoration of popular figures. A Pandora's box of furies has opened up. But if it's too late now to put those furies back, might anything else be done with them? This issue of Granta looks at the ways we feel politically - and asks whether it's possible to feel any other way. Adam Phillips analyses politics in the consulting room, Roxane Gay considers 'unfeeling', Peter Pomerantsev unearths his data profile to conduct sentiment analysis, Margie Orford explores shame in South Africa, Joff Winterhart graphically imagines road rage, Pankaj Mishra reflects on bodily decadence, Josh Cohen inspects his own apathy, Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor witnesses devastation, David Baddiel probes the outrage of life online. With new fiction from Olga Tokarczuk, Ben Markovits, Deborah Levy, Hanif Kureishi and new poetry from Nick Laird and Alissa Quart.

The Politics of Feeling

Four times a year, Britain's most prestigious literary magazine brings you the best new fiction, reportage, memoir, poetry and photography from around the world. This issue features John Ryle on the worldwide conservationist struggles over white rhinos, Lynda Schuster on Pittsburgh in the wake of a synagogue shooting, Ariel Saramandi on everyday racism in Mauritius, and Joe Dunthorne, author of Submarine, on his grandmother's escape from Berlin during the 1936 Olympics. Plus, fiction by Jason Ockert, Mahreen Sohail and Ann Beattie, as well as photography by Diana Matar in Naples.

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In 1979, Bill Buford, a young American graduate, revived an old Cambridge university magazine and created a new home for good writing of all kinds - reportage, fiction, memoir, poetry - as well as photography. In the years (and decades) that followed, Granta established itself as the one of the most prestigious literary publications in the English-speaking world. In that time Granta has published 26 Nobel Prize for Literature winners, defined new literary genres and paved the way for generations of young novelists. To celebrate forty years of brilliant publishing, Granta 147 brings together our best fiction and non-fiction from the last four decades, along with a selection of letters from behind the scenes. This will be a collector's issue and is not to be missed. Featuring... Angela Carter Kazuo Ishiguro Todd McEwen Bruce Chatwin James Fenton Primo Levi Amitav Ghosh Raymond Carver Philip Roth John Gregory Dunne Ryszard Kapuscinski Joy Williams Don DeLillo John Berger Gabriel Garca Mrquez Bill Buford Lindsey Hilsum Lorrie Moore Hilary Mantel Ian Jack Edward Said Diana Athill Edmund White Ved Mehta Alexandra Fuller Binyavanga Wainaina Mary Gaitskill Lydia Davis Jeanette Winterson Herta Mller

American Wild also features new writing by Martin Amis, Anne Carson, Diane Cook, Thomas McGuane, Jess Row, Mona Simpson and Callan Wink, poetry by Andrew Motion and Mary Ruefle and photography by Aaron Huey and Nicola Lo Calzo.

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From Nobel laureates to debut novelists, international translations to investigative journalism, each issue of Granta turns the attention of the world's best writers on to one aspect of the way we live now. This winter issue will feature Fatima Bhutto on her dog Coco, Andrew McMillan on the Goosebumps series, as well as non-fiction by Chris Dennis and Jacob Dlamini and fiction by Debbie Urbanski and Julie Hecht.

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