This issue of Granta tells the story of
siblings: chaotic hierarchies, zero-sum games of competition alternating
with tenderness, lifelong relationships that nevertheless can sometimes
break.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.