Description Granta 146 is guest-edited by Devorah Baum and Josh Appignanesi.
We're living through hysterical times.
Rage, resentment, shame, guilt and paranoia are everywhere surfacing, as is the intemperate adoration or hatred of popular but divisive public figures.
Political discourse suffers when people seem to trust only what they feel and can no longer be swayed by reason or facts.
If extreme feelings are a contagion within the political cultures of to.
