Granta 111: Going Back

John Freeman

We all go back: to the house or town where we were raised, to an old friend or lover, to an idea or belief we abandoned long ago. But can we ever trust our memories? And what if it still proves impossible to return?

In this latest issue of Granta, writers meditate on these essential questions from an exciting array of vantage points. Richard Russo returns home to Gloversville, NY, the dying upstate town which once made one out of every three pairs of gloves in the world - and is now on the verge of extinction. Janine di Giovanni revisits Bosnia and the children she met there during the conflict of the early nineties.

The issue will feature new fiction by up-and-coming writer Claire Vaye Watkins, a blistering critique, by American essayist Hal Crowther, of the internet's erosion of solitude, and a new story set in contemporary Lagos by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

Exclusively on Granta.com: Owen Sheers returns to Zimbabwe, plus new poetry from Troy Jollimore.