West: Animalia (Granta: the Magazine of New Writing) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1909889121 ISBN 13: 9781909889125

Publisher: Granta Magazine, 2018

Synopsis

animal (noun): 'Any such living organism other than a human being'
human being (noun): 'A man, woman, or child of the species Homo sapiens, distinguished from other animals by superior mental development, power of articulate speech, and upright stance'
LOLcat (noun): 'A photograph of a cat accompanied by a humorous caption written typically in a misspelled and grammatically incorrect version of English'
Fiction: Steven Dunn, Cormac James, Ben Lasman, Christina Wood Martinez, Yoko Tawada, Joy Williams, Nell Zink
Non-Fiction: Nadeem Aslam, John Connell, Diane Cook, Cal Flyn, Adam Foulds, Rebecca Giggs, Arnon Grunberg, Aman Sethi
Plus: Ben Crane, Daniyal Mueenuddin, Adam Nicolson, Dbc Pierre, Christine Schutt, Esther Woolfson, Evie Wyld
Poetry: Emily Critchley, Dorothea Lasky, Ko Ko Thett
Photography: Britta Jaschinski, Elliot Ross, introduced by Alexander Macleod, Helge Skodvin, introduced by Ned Beauman

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.

Review:

"A stunning contribution to contemporary literature" - Newsweek

"An excellent publication, by far the most professional operation this side of the Atlantic" - New Statesman

About this edition

• Publisher: Granta Magazine
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1909889121
• ISBN 13: 9781909889125
• Binding: Paperback
• Editor: Rausing Sigrid