Granta 136: Legacies of Love (The Magazine of New Writing, 136) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1905881975 ISBN 13: 9781905881970

Publisher: Granta Books, 2016

Synopsis

What happens after you fall in love? The essays and fiction in this issue of Granta look at the risk and reward of loving someone.

'Whatever Happened to Interracial Love' by the late African-American filmmaker Kathleen Collins, captures the atmosphere of the Civil Rights movement in New York and the dangerous risks taken by its activists. In an iconic essay 'Africa's Future Has No Place for Stupid Black Men' young Nigerian writer Pwaangulongii Daoud delivers a passionate elegy for his friend C-Boy, a gay activist in homophobic Nigeria. And Claire Hajaj describes a perilous journey from Raqqa to Allepo to Beirut, for a refugee from Islamic State.

Suzanne Brøgger describes the pain of being stalked; Emma Cline depicts a taut sibling relationship; Steven Dunn on a violent childhood; and Gwendoline Riley on first love.

Also in this issue:
FICTION Patrick Flanery, Victor Lodato; POETRY Vahni Capildeo, Melissa Lee-Houghton, Sylvia Legris and Hoa Nguyen; PHOTOGRAPHY Jacob Aue Sobol with an introduction by Joanna Kavenna

About this title

About the Author:

Sigrid Rausing is Editor and Publisher of Granta magazine and Publisher of Granta and Portobello Books. She is the author of History, Memory and Identity in Post-Soviet Estonia: The End of a Collective Farm and Everything is Wonderful, which has been translated into four different languages.

About this edition

• Publisher: Granta Books
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1905881975
• ISBN 13: 9781905881970
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Rausing Sigrid