Granta 91: Wish You Were Here
This issue features Simon Gray in Barbados, rocking in his pram, smoking, remembering Alan Bates; Saïd Sayrafiezadeh on his father’s irritating dreams of human perfection; Ismail Kadaré at the Great Wall of China (and Life); plus bulletins on our changing climate from Margaret Atwood (The Arctic), John Borneman (Sri Lanka), Urvashi Butalia (India), James Hamilton-Paterson (Italy), Maarten ’t Hart (The Netherlands), Thomas Keneally (Australia), James Lasdun (United States), Javier Reverte (Spain), and Rodrigo Rey Rosa (Guatemala). And Simon Garfield on the addictive, beautiful and costly errors of the postage stamp.
In this issue
Ian Jack: Motley Notes
Simon Gray: Wish You Were Here
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh: When Skateboards Will Be Free
Karen E. Bender: The Visiting Child
Robin Grierson: Family Pictures
Simon Garfield: The Error World
Ismail Kadaré: The Great Wall
Geoff Dyer: White Sands
Frederick Tuten: The Ship at Anchor
Margaret Atwood: The Weather Where We Are
John Borneman: The Weather Where We Are
Urvashi Butalia: The Weather Where We Are
James Hamilton-Paterson: The Weather Where We Are
Maarten ’t Hart: The Weather Where We Are
Thomas Keneally: The Weather Where We Are
James Lasdun: The Weather Where We Are
Javier Reverte: The Weather Where We Are
Rodrigo Rey Rosa: The Weather Where We Are
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The Weather Where We Are
On surviving a tsunami in Sri Lanka