Granta 152: Still Life (07/2020)

Four times a year, Britain's most prestigious literary magazine brings you the best new fiction, reportage, memoir, poetry and photography from around the world. This issue features John Ryle on the worldwide conservationist struggles over white rhinos, Lynda Schuster on Pittsburgh in the wake of a synagogue shooting, Ariel Saramandi on everyday racism in Mauritius, and Joe Dunthorne, author of Submarine, on his grandmother's escape from Berlin during the 1936 Olympics. Plus, fiction by Jason Ockert, Mahreen Sohail and Ann Beattie, as well as photography by Diana Matar in Naples. ‘After so many years of feeling that some Event was due, that something vast must surely happen, something vast happened. Is happening.’ from ‘Spring’ by China Miéville This issue reflects on confinement, escape and paying attention, as writers and artists respond to the pandemic. Cover by Leanne Shapton