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Everything is Wonderful: Memories of a Collective Farm in Estonia by Sigrid Rausing
42.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
In 1993, Sigrid Rausing, a young student working on a PhD in Anthropology, went to spend a year living in Estonia, a remote Baltic State that had just gained independence from the recently collapsed Soviet Union. Armed with a notebook, rudimentary Estonian, and a clunky laptop, she arrived in the penins ...Show more
Granta 129 by Sigrid Rausing
29.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Includes contributions by Anjan Sundaram, Andrea Stuart, Fatima Bhutto, Sam Coll, Joanna Kavenna, Joseph Roth, Michael Cunningham, and Will Self.
Granta 131: The map is not the territory by Sigrid Rausing
29.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Description: 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 Ulits ...Show more
Granta 132 Possession by Sigrid Rausing
27.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
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 ...Show more
Granta 139: Best of Young American Novelists 3 by Sigrid Rausing
27.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Granta: the Magazine of New Writing | Reading Level: General Adult
The third instalment in Granta's iconic list of the best new voices in American fiction.Once every ten years Granta publishes a list of the twenty best American fiction writers under the age of forty.In 1997 and 2007 we picked out such luminaries as Daniel Alarc�n, Edwidge Danticat, Anthony Doerr, Jeffr ...Show more
Granta #140 : The Mind by Sigrid (EDT) Rausing
27.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Granta: the Magazine of New Writing | Reading Level: General Adult
We know how the brain works, but do we understand the mind? In an age when we are finally taking mental health as seriously as physical health, this issue of Granta explores the conscious self: how it perceives, judges and lives in the world. With new fiction, reportage, poetry, photography, and art add ...Show more
Granta 142: Animalia by Sigrid Rausing (ed.)
27.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Granta: The Magazine of New Writing | Reading Level: near fine
Animals. We love and care for them as pets, we weave them into our myths and fables and then we breed them under conditions of terrible cruelty just so we can eat them cheaply. As new developments in research into animal cognition force us to concede fewer characteristics separating us from our neighbou ...Show more
Granta 144 by Sigrid Rausing (Editor)
27.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: The\Magazine of New Writing Ser.
An issue on gender and power Devorah Baum reads Grace Paley to find out what women want Stella Duffy looks for LGBT voices in the #MeToo debate Fernanda Eberstadt remembers the 70s drag scene in New York Debra Gwartney breaks her silence Ottessa Moshfegh gets what she wants TaraShea Nesbit revisits her ...Show more
Granta 145 Ghosts by Sigrid Rausing (Editor)
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Category: Short Stories | Series: Granta: The Magazine of New Writing | Reading Level: verygood
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 writes from prison in Turkey Bernard Cooper on Ambien and sleep-eating Maggie O’Farrell on ...Show more
Granta 147 by Sigrid Rausing
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Category: Essays | Series: The\Magazine of New Writing Ser.
Granta 147 will be our Fortieth Birthday Special. This will be a celebratory issue featuring a collection of the best essays and fiction from the magazine's lauded history. It has now been forty years since Bill Buford, Jonathan Levi and Peter de Bolla relaunched Cambridge University's student publicat ...Show more
Granta 148 by Sigrid Rausing
27.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: The\Magazine of New Writing Ser.
New fiction from Andrew O'Hagan, Elif Shafak, Adam Foulds, David Means, Jem Day Calder, Magododi OuMphela Makhene, Caroline Albertine Minor, Thomas Pierce, Adam O'Fallon Price, Amor Towles. And Tom Bamforth on the refugee camp in Bangladesh known as 'Cox's Bazaar'. Published in book form four times a y ...Show more
Granta 149 - The New Europe II by Sigrid Rausing (Editor)
27.99 NZD
Category: Literature | Series: The\Magazine of New Writing Ser.
Issue 149, 'New New Europe', marks the UK's departure from the EU, and features a range of commissioned pieces from respected writers on the state of Europe today. This harks back to the 1989 issue 'New Europe', which was themed around the response to the fall of the Berlin wall.