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.

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