Granta #174 2026 - Therapy lighting design The very notion of imagining

The very notion of imagining a better future was relegated into a worn-out ideal

And the 911 looks good even when it’s unwashed

moreThe ambivalence of the French word together with the theme of Camus’ story

René Daumal (1908-1944) was a French poet and writer often associated with surrealism (though he fought against the label)

including Impressionism’s revolt against the academic disciplining of art

Granta #174 2026 - Therapy lighting design The very notion of imaginingFor our winter issue, Granta goes to therapy. Featuring non fiction by Jesse Barron, Dushko Petrovich Crdova, Sheila Heti, Elfriede Jelinek, Paul Keegan and Deborah Levy. New fiction by Camilla Grudova, Benjamin Kunkel, Anne Serre and Missouri Williams. Conversations between Christopher Bollas and Granta, Juliet Mitchell and Lidija Haas, and Jonathan Lear and Benjamin Y. Fong. Art and photography by Louise Bourgeois, Rinko Kawauchi, Musuk Nolte