Granta 138: Journeys, Paperback

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What are the ethics of writing about a place you visit as an outsider? With Granta's long tradition of travel writing in mind, we ask some of the foremost writers of the genre: is travel writing dead?

Tara Bergin, Rana Dasgupta, Geoff Dyer, Eliza Griswold, Mohsin Hamid, Lindsey Hilsum, Colin Thubron, Pico Iyer, Ian Jack, Robert Macfarlane, Wendell Steavenson, Samanth Subramanian and Alexis Wright

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William Atkins investigates murder on the US-Mexico border; Xan Rice goes back to school in South Africa; David Flusfeder's road trip to Detroit and California in search of his father's past; Xiaolu Guo leaves China's 'semi-tropical south' for the 'solemn and tough north'; Janine di Giovanni's homesickness Amit Chaudhuri returns to the city of his birth; New fiction from Edna O'Brien; poetry by Emily Berry and Zeyar Lynn; photography by Justin Jin, Carl De Keyzer and Andrew McConnell introduced by A Yi and Adam Marek