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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.Mark Doty examines the phenomenon of being a gay man who once married a woman rather than come out of the closet. Brian Chikwava recounts the history of revolution and sexual liberation in Zimbabwe. Jeanette Winterson offers up a wickedly irreverent modern-day myth about sex and the gods, and Jennifer Egan contributes a piece of fiction about a strung-out, disillusioned music producer. Other contributors include Herta Müller and Dave Eggers and Marie Darrieussecq. We're also pleased to present a previously unpublished piece of prose by the late Roberto Bolaño.… (meer)
A very variegated experience. I've been cheated into reading Jennifer Egan by the way her story in this collection turned out to be a chapter of a book; I am thankful for that in the end. Beautiful Bolano, engaging, austere Chris Offutt, a nice story by Victor LaValle. On the other hand, almost everything translated from the French incredibly disappointing, especially Emmanuel Carrère, who seems to be a well-known author; the story Granta chose is one I'd burn and bury as a standard unit of mediocrity. Some stories are no more than actual descriptions of sex experience; they are mostly slightly above a story slam level. Jeanette Winterson's story at the end of the volume I'd been waiting for so eagerly seemed contrived and overwrought with ideas, almost turning me off. But I will try reading her again.
All in all, the magazine delivers what it's bought for. Also, it has pictures and poems which did not influence my "rating", but make the three stars glitter. ( )
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.Mark Doty examines the phenomenon of being a gay man who once married a woman rather than come out of the closet. Brian Chikwava recounts the history of revolution and sexual liberation in Zimbabwe. Jeanette Winterson offers up a wickedly irreverent modern-day myth about sex and the gods, and Jennifer Egan contributes a piece of fiction about a strung-out, disillusioned music producer. Other contributors include Herta Müller and Dave Eggers and Marie Darrieussecq. We're also pleased to present a previously unpublished piece of prose by the late Roberto Bolaño.
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All in all, the magazine delivers what it's bought for. Also, it has pictures and poems which did not influence my "rating", but make the three stars glitter. (