Granta - The Magazine of New Writing "After the War"

1. The Rainy Season by Lindsey Hilsum 2. Mess by Romesh Gunesekera 3. Pax Americana by Rowan Ricardo Phillips 4. Crow Fair by Thomas McGuane 5. Late in Life by A.L. Kennedy 6. (from) Opening Invocation by Jean-Paul de Dadelsen 7. Zone of Absolute Discomfort – (Photo journalism) by Justin Jin 8. Always the Same Snow and Always the Same Uncle by Herta Muller 9. 1979 by Aminatta Forna 10. A Sparrow Fallen (photo journalism) by Dave Heath 11. You Remember the Planes by Paul Auster 12. From Dream to Dream by Yiyun Li 13. Stalkers by Hari Kunzru 14. Revelations by Ange Mlinko 15. After the War by Patrick French 16. Notes on the contributors Editor and publisher Sigrid Rausing does a great job on a theme ripe for the picking for reportage and short stories. In fact this is the strongest issue for some time. Highlights for me include Aminatta Forna's memoir on being a diplomat's daughter during the Iranian revolution; Thomas McGuane's black but very funny story of a mother's infedelity with a Native American and Lindsay Hilsum's return journey to Rawanda. The photo journalism of Justin Jin was equally powerful. The photos in Hari Kunzru's reportage of Chernobyl's bleak tourism park was great too.