Granta 161: Sister, Brother

This issue of Granta. tells the story of siblings: chaotic hierarchies, zero-sum games of competition alternating with tenderness, lifelong relationships that nevertheless can sometimes break. Psychoanalysis famously privileges the vertical relationship between a child (the patient) and their parents over the seemingly equal and unproblematic horizontal connections between siblings. This issue of Granta. tells a different story - one of chaotic hierarchies, a zerosum game of sibling competition alternating with tenderness; lifelong relationships that nevertheless can sometimes >Featuring memoir by Sara Baume. , Suzanne Brøgger. (Tr. Saskia Vogel. ), Emma Cline. , Omer Friedlander. , Charlie Gilmour. , Lauren Groff. , Will Harris. , Lauren John Joseph. , Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow. , Jamal Mahjoub. , Andrew Miller. , John Niven. , Vanessa Onwuemezi. , Karolina Ramqvist. (Tr. Caroline Waight. ), Taiye Selasi. , Angelique Stevens. With fiction by Colin Barrett. and Ben Pester. , a graphic short story by Lee Lai. ; poetry by Will Harris. , K Patrick. , and Natalie Shapero. , and photoessays by Sebastián Bruno. introduced by Sophie Mackintosh. and Julian Slagman. introduced by Alice Hattrick.