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Spring 2010
Sex is our oldest obsession. For as long as we’ve been doing it, it has been used as a mark of decline and a measure of progress. It has been at the centre of rituals and responsible for revolutions. We make money from it, hide behind it, prohibit and promote it. It relaxes us, revolts us, hurts us and helps us. But whatever we think about it, however we do it, it defines us.
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Fiction|Granta 110
Fiction|Granta 110
The Unwriteable
Mark Doty
‘When I was seventeen, a freshman in college living in my parents’ house, I met Ruth at a poetry reading.’
Fiction|Granta 110
Poetry|Granta 110
Fiction|Granta 110
Fiction|Granta 110
Tokyo Island
Natsuo Kirino
‘The lottery to choose her next husband was to take place at the Imperial Palace.’
Essays & Memoir|Granta 110
Essays & Memoir|Granta 110
Rousseau and the Pussycat
Marie Darrieussecq
‘I am aware that according to present-day criteria, the story I am about to tell contains several shocking scenes which fall within the realms of sexual harassment and cruelty towards animals.’
Essays & Memoir|Granta 110
Essays & Memoir|Granta 110
The Fig Tree and the Wasp
Brian Chikwava
‘The day I first saw the dance was the day we had expected to end with the execution of my maternal grandfather.’
Poetry|Granta 110
Essays & Memoir|Granta 110
Essays & Memoir|Granta 110
My Queer War
James Lord
‘The ascent into oblivion was utter caesura of self.’
Poetry|Granta 110
Poetry|Granta 110
Bianca Burning
C.K. Williams
‘The sexual terror lions are roaring into my ears as I make my way between their cages’
Art & Photography|Granta 110
Art & Photography|Granta 110
Essays & Memoir|Granta 110
Essays & Memoir|Granta 110
Roseland
Rebecca Lenkiewicz
‘I’m twenty-one. On a Greyhound bus going from New York to San Francisco.’
Fiction|Granta 110
Fiction|Granta 110
This is for You
Emmanuel Carrère
‘I have a proposition for you. From this moment on, you will do everything I tell you to do.’
Art & Photography|Granta 110
Essays & Memoir|Granta 110
Essays & Memoir|Granta 110
Park Life
Rupert Thomson
‘As the weeks went by, I began to realize that the park had its own unofficial and carefully calibrated infrastructure.’
Fiction|Granta 110
Fiction|Granta 110
The Agony of Intimacy
Jeanette Winterson
‘We all knew that about the gods – that they were total sex.’
Essays & Memoir|Granta 110
Essays & Memoir|Granta 110
Letter from Wyoming
Brad Watson
Brad Watson adjusts to the long winters and snow-covered charms of a State that most...
The Online Edition
In Conversation|The Online Edition
Interview: Yann Faucher
Emily Greenhouse
Yann Faucher’s photo essay ‘Body’ is printed in Granta 110: Sex. He spoke to Emily...
Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition
Brief Encounter
Rupert Thomson
‘The man on the other end told me he was looking for sexual fantasies that were about eleven sentences long.’
In Conversation|The Online Edition
Interview: Jo Broughton
Jo Broughton
Ollie Brock interviewed Jo about how she came to live in a porn studio –...
Fiction|The Online Edition
After Hours
A. M. Homes
‘They have created stage sets, backdrops, candy-coloured scenarios, Kodacolor bright landscapes onto which you can project your fantasies.’
Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition
Victor LaValle reads ‘Long Distance’
Victor LaValle
Click on the player below to listen to Victor LaValle read his essay ‘Long Distance’.
Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition
Woman’s Body: An Owner’s Manual
Evie Wyld
‘In the year before my first period, my mother gives me a book called Woman’s Body, An Owner’s Manual.’
Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition
A Feudal Outpost in Mount Lebanon
Lana Asfour
‘Intelligent, unpredictable, occasionally ruthless, Jumblatt shows that he is still very much in the game’
Fiction|The Online Edition
Athena Sees Good Things for You
Patrick Ryan
I was running out of money and looking for work. In Union Square I bumped...