Blitzed Beijing

In Granta 102: ‘The New Nature Writing’, Robert Macfarlane travelled to the Norfolk Fens to see a ghost.

In a video interview for Granta.com, Robert Macfarlane reflected on the future of nature writing.

In ‘The Lost City’, from Granta 73: ‘Necessary Journeys’, Isabel Hilton returned to Beijing after a ten-year absence. ‘Ten years later, globalization and the market economy has changed the city so much that I struggle to recognize it. The city in my head, the map that is imprinted on my brain as clearly as the map of the London Underground, no longer corresponds to the Beijing I see around me.’

In Granta 89, Isabel Hilton detailed the evolution of the Chinese factory.

In ‘We love China’ from Granta 92, Lindsey Hilsum chronicled China’s ‘rapidly growing influence’ on Africa.

In Granta 98, Hugh Raffles examined the ancient Chinese sport of cricket fighting.

In a photo essay for Granta.com, Justin Partyka captured rural life in East Anglia.

In ‘Greenland’, from Granta 100, Isabel Hilton ventured to the margins of the habitable world.

In Granta 101, Akash Kapur traced the environmental devastation of a beach on the south-east coast of India.

In ‘Bad Land’, from Granta 49, Jonathan Raban travelled the American west. Raban revisited the west for his essay ‘Second Nature’, from Granta 102.

In Granta 102, Paul Farley and Niall Griffiths remembered Netherley, Mark Cocker met famed British landscape artist Kurt Jackson and Anthony Doerr encountered fellow migrants in western Wyoming.

On Granta.com, Pamela Petro explored a majestic artwork in El Paso, Texas.