Granta 110: Sex

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. (Watch John Freeman’s video-introduction to the issue.)

IN THIS ISSUE...

Fiction

Roberto Bolaño The Redhead
Natsuo Kirino Tokyo Island
Tom McCarthy The Spa
Herta Müller Zeppelin
Jennifer Egan The Gold Cure
Chris Offutt The Blue Zoo
Adam Foulds The Rules are the Rules
Jeanette Winterson The Agony of Intimacy

Art

Jo Broughton Empty Porn Sets
Dave Eggers Four Animals Contemplating Sex
Yann Faucher Body

Memoir/Non-fiction

Mark Doty The Unwriteable
Marie Darrieussecq Rousseau and the Pussycat
Brian Chikwava The Fig Tree and the Wasp
James Lord My Queer War
Michael Symmons Roberts Silence
Victor LaValle Long Distance
Emmanuel Carrère This is For You
Rupert Thomson Park Life

Plus poetry by Carl Phillips, Anne Carson, C. K. Williams and David Kirby

Illustration © Owen Freeman