Granta 131: The Map Is Not the Territory

This issue of Granta is about the difference between the world as we see it and the world as it actually is, beyond our faulty memories and tired understanding. It’s also about the borderlands of politics and reason, and of reality and transcendence, in contested territories.
Ludmila Ulitskaya’s diary of cancer treatment in Russia and IsraelRaja Shehadeh on emptying his mother’s house in RamallahJanine di Giovanni remembers Iraq before and after the American invasionCharles Glass on the jihadist occupation of an Armenian village in SyriaFiction by Jesse Ball, Kevin Canty, Jon Fosse, Sebasti Jovani, China Miville, Ottessa Moshfegh and Tracy O’NeillPoetry by John Ashbery, Peter Gizzi, Kathryn Maris and Sandra SimondsPhotography by Nomie Goudal and Ian TehPlus: The second act of Anne Carson’s TV show, ‘Krapp Hour’