Granta 154: I've Been Away for a While
deals with absence and presence, immediacy and distance in a time when these concepts are increasingly troubled.
Our 2021 winter issue features
Rory Gleeson
on an Italian doctor who was at the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak;
Lindsey Hilsum
, author of the award-winning
In Extremis
, on cholera in Hutu refugee camps; and photography by
Gus Palmer
of an Islamic morgue in London, with an introduction by
Poppy Sebag-Montefiore
. Even more memoir comes from
Ian Jack
on the toxic slag heaps of Glasgow and the aristocratic lives built on them and
Vidyan Ravinthiran
on the civil war in Sri Lanka. A photoessay by
Fergus Thomas
of bareback horse racing in the Colville Reservation is accompanied by an interview with its subject,
Duane Hall
.
Plus, an excerpt from
Eva Baltasar
's
Permafrost
, translated from the Catalan by
Julia Sanches
; a new story by
Paul Dalla Rosa
, previously shortlisted for the 2019
Sunday Times
Audible Short Story Award; an extract from the new novel by
Gwendoline Riley
, author of
First Love
; fiction by
Diaa Jubaili
, translated from the Arabic by Chip Rossetti; and fiction set in Philadelphia from
Dan Shurley
Plus, poetry by
Jason Allen-Paisant
,
Jesse Darling
and
Nate Duke.