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 Israel
Raja Shehadeh on emptying his mother's house in Ramallah
Janine di Giovanni remembers Iraq before and after the American invasion
Charles Glass on the jihadist occupation of an Armenian village in Syria
Fiction by Jesse Ball, Kevin Canty, Jon Fosse, Sebasti? Jovani, China Mi?ville, Ottessa Moshfegh and Tracy O'Neill
Poetry by John Ashbery, Peter Gizzi, Kathryn Maris and Sandra Simonds
Photography by No?mie Goudal and Ian Teh
Plus: The second act of Anne Carson's TV show, 'Krapp Hour'
