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From Lower Saxony to Leipzig, the carwash to the planetarium, thespecial Deutschland issue of Granta comprises the most promisingdevelopments of contemporary German literature. In Leif Randt's "AllegroPastel," the smooth consciousness of a Merkel-era young professional's flightinto a lifestyle is examined with a clinical scalpel. The issue includesstories by Yoko Tawada, Judith Hermann, Shida Bayzar, and Clemens Meyer. The issue features bursts of fiction and reflection from AlexanderKluge, an essay by Fredric Jameson on Neo Rauch, Jürgen Habermas onthe future of Europe, Peter Richter on the murder that explains thehorror-architecture of Potsdamer Platz, Adrian Daub on the dark history ofGerman car culture, Ryan Ruby on Berlin's last utopian moment, Michael Hofmannon the Germany he never wished to return to, Nell Zink on the Germany shecannot quit, Peter Kuras on German humor, Lutz Seiler on serving in thePeople's Army, Lauren Oyler on the projections of generations of Americanswho have come to Germany with an idea of culture in their heads that they onlysubsequently learned had reached them like the light of a distant star thatlong ago collapsed, and a conversation about anti-anti-Semitism betweenGeorge Prochnik, Emily Dische-Becker and Eyal Weizman. Also included: Peter Handke's notebooks. Poetry from ElfriedeCzurda and Frederik Seidel. Photography by Martin Roemers (with an introduction by the poetDurs Grünbein); Ilyes Griyeb (with an introduction by Imogen West-Knights) andElena Helfrecht (with an introduction by Hanna Engelmeier). Cover by Muhammad Salah.

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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 >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.

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.

Published four times a year, Granta is respected around the world for its mix of outstanding contemporary writing, art and photography.This summer issue of Granta features fiction by Jesse Ball, Eva Freeman, Okwiri Oduor, Tao Lin, Adam O'Fallon Price, Vanessa Onwuemezi, Kathryn Scanlan and Diane Williams. Granta 156: Interiors includes poetry by Kaveh Akbar, Sasha Debvec-McKenny, Gboyega Odubanjo and Nick Laird, as well as memoir by Chris Dennis, Debra Gwartney, Sandra Newman and Ruchir Joshi. With photography by Robbie Lawrence, introduced by Colin Herd, and Kaitlin Maxwell, introduced by Lynne Tillman.

Published in book form four times a year, Granta is respected around the world for its mix of outstanding new fiction, poetry, reportage, memoir, photography and art.Granta 149: New Europe includes essays by Elif Shafak, UKON, Andrew Miller, Will Atkins, Lara Feigel, Katherine Angel, Michael Hofmann, Joseph Koerner, Tom McCarthy and many more. It harks back to the 1989 issue of the same name, themed around the response to the fall of the Berlin wall. Through the lenses of exile and migration, we ask ourselves what it means to be European now. Featuring a photoessay by Bruno Fert who steps inside the temporary homes of refugees in camps in Greece and France.