The Magazine of New Writing.

From Antarctica and the deserts of the US-Mexico border, to a Siberian whale-killing station and the alleyways of Taipei, these dispatches describe a world in perpetual motion (even when it is 'locked-down'). To travel, we are reminded, is to embrace the experience of being a stranger - to acknowledge that one person's frontier is another's home.

In 1984 Granta published its first issue devoted to travel writing. Nearly forty years after that genre-defining volume, a new generation of writers from around the globe offers a new vision of what travel writing can be.

Granta 157 is guest-edited by award-winning travel writer William Atkins.

It features:

• Jason Allen-Paisant remembers the trees of his childhood Jamaica from his home in Leeds
• Carlos Manuel Alvarez navigates Cuba's customs system
• Eliane Brum travels from her home in the Brazilian Amazon to Antarctica in the era of climate crisis
• Francisco Cantu and Javier Zamora: a former border guard travels to the US-Mexico border with a former undocumented migrant who crossed the border as a child
• Jennifer Croft's richly illustrated essay on postcards and graffiti, inspired by Los Angeles
• Bathsheba Demuth visits a whale-hunting station on the Bering Strait, Russia
• Sinead Gleeson visits Brazil with Clarice Lispector
• Kate Harris with the Tinglit people of the Taku River basin, Alaska
• Artist Roni Horn on Iceland
• Emmanuel Iduma returns to Lagos in his late father's footsteps, Nigeria
• Kapka Kassabova among the gatherers of the ancient Mesta River, Bulgaria
• Taran Khan with Afghan migrants in Germany and Kabul
• Jessica J. Lee in the alleyways of Taipei, Taiwan, in search of her mother's home
• Sven Lindqvist in the Mauritanian Sahara in 1987 - a previously unpublished essay by the late icon of travel writing
• Ben Mauk among the volcanoes of Duterte's Philippines
• Pascale Petit tracks tigers in Paris and India
• Photographer James Tylor on the legacy of whaling in Indigenous South Australia

Editor: William Atkins
Publisher: self-published
Pages: 280pp
Size: 5.75 x 8.5
Notes: perfect bound, full color
Release Date: November 18, 2021
ISBN: 978-1909889439