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Compelling, challenging short pieces on the animal kingdom. Through both fiction and non-fiction the authors in this collection explore the complexity of the relationship between humans and the animals we share this earth with. It is at times confronting, but always thoughtful reading. I was impressed. Slaughterhouse, The Taxidermy Museum, and Winterkill were standouts for me.
This is a collection of short stories and non-fiction articles on the topic of, as the title suggest, the animal kingdom. It's not quite as simple as that and there is some licence to explore other, related topics. We have natural history with articles about the red deer cull in Scotland, about the life of swifts that go for years without touching the ground. We have dystopian fiction about a future where American soldiers are given to taxidermists in the same way that animals are today, for exh...
For like half a day I thought I would try writing stories, but as usual, instead of sitting down to Do The Thing, I found it more entertaining to “scope out the market”* and see what it is like in a literary magazine.I never heard of Granta before and I know nothing about it except that I think it’s English, the pages smell like the bookshelf in my grandma’s old house, and it is bound in such a way that makes you feel sophisticated just holding the thing. It’s a mixture of fiction, journalism, p...
Great issue. Among some great and okay fiction and non-fiction short pieces I just fell in love with THE ASTRONAUT by Christina Wood Martinez (she's almost a debutante, few short stories under her belt). I look forward for more, she's so promising.
Yet another provocative edition of Granta.Think about animals, humans included. Their whys and wherefores, instincts and intelligence, life spans and "uses."The photography serves as both thread and frame for the fiction and non-fiction. Utterly arresting eyes and views. I so liked that the viewpoints aren't anthropomorphic. Artists really pitch themselves into other species' worlds.Nothing's cute here. Just hard truthful.Go into a slaughterhouse to work and understand. Fly with the swifts. Hunt...
As suggested by the title, the theme of this edition is the animal world and our relationship with it. I really enjoyed this edition. The factual pieces were interesting and covered areas I thought I knew, including deer culling and the meat industry, from perspectives which weren’t obvious.The fiction was even better. Several of the stories were futuristic although understandably not optimistic. Aside from the concern about the toll we are taking on the environment, an empathy towards animals w...
A generally high standard in this issue. Very varied, too with writing from all over the world all viewing animals in very different ways: nonfiction about abattoirs and culls, farm births, swifts, pets and man-killing tigers, photographs of stuffed animals being transported, miserable circus animals and detailed drawings of lots of different animals, and sci fi, alternative universe, and satirical fiction all memorable and well-written.
The thing with anthologies like the quarterly Granta publications is that they‘re always going to be a mixed bag. There were 2 stand-out essays in this collection of 32 animal-themed works, Aman Sethi‘s Tyger Tyger (about the impact on villages of India‘s tiger reserve policy) and Cal Flynn‘s Winterkill, about management of the deer population in Scotland. The rest of the collection left me unimpressed.
The first Granta I've ever come across. A fascinating anthology collecting odd bits of shortform literature. I particularly liked the story about the Astronaut, relevant in our age of Trump. I also found the story about the Dutch abbatoirs disturbing, I felt like the writer was going native. I'm so glad to have managed to find a copy of Granta.
This was a disappointing issue of Granta for me. Too much cruelty and death. Beautiful writing can be enough, but for me, in too many pieces in this issue, it was not.
As often, I'm way behind reading (Granta).Theme on 142: Animalia! I own some British Shorthairs and an Australian Shepherd.
Some beautifully written pieces, and much soul searching. I liked the way that the different pieces of writing often came from such different perspectives.
Mixed bag.
some solid stories. always good when you read a work by Stephen Dunn too.
Meh. The best story was The Astronaut by Christina Wood Martinez.
A very strong issue, diverse and moving.
This is another excellent edition of Granta. These pieces were particularly noteworthy:The Astronaut, Christina Wood MartinezIssue, Cormac JamesOn Coyotes, Diane CookThe Rat Snipers, Ben Lasman - standout!The Kabul Markhor, Nell Zink - wacky, surreal, highly originalTyger, Tyger, Aman SethiSwifts, Dorothea Lasky
