Granta #174
145 x 210 mm, 312 pages
London, UK
Editor: Thomas Meaney
Design: Daniela Silva
Publisher: Sigrid Rausing
From Nobel laureates to debut novelists, international translations to investigative journalism, each themed issue of Granta turns the attention of the world’s best writers on to one aspect of the way we live now.
‘Therapy’ is the theme this issue, with editor Thomas Meaney reflecting on the unexpected intensity of such an undertaking in his opening letter: ‘At least one editor went into therapy with at least one contributor.’ The result is an unconventional and cathartic questioning of the blurred line between gratuitous oversharing and therapeutic analysis.
Inside, Sheila Heti unpacks her month-long journey with holistic medicine (AKA supervised treatments with Ketamine, MDMA, LSD, mushrooms and DMT), documenting conversations had during her trips and the rebalanced, authentic discoveries that emerged from them. Elsewhere, Deborah Levy considers the influence that the art direction of a therapist’s room has on the psychoanalytic process; she references Freud’s approach to the consultation room and Werner Herzog’s disdain for the discipline, concluding that this space— in which we seek answers—mirrors that of a film set.
Plus, further contributions from the likes of Natalie Shapero, Jesse Barron, Benjamin Kunkel and Camilla Grudova.