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Granta 157: Should We Have Stayed at Home?: New Travel 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.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 LeedsCarlos Manuel รlvarez navigates Cuba`s customs system, translated by Frank WynneEliane Brum travels from her home in the Brazilian Amazon to Antarctica in the era of climate crisis, translated by Diane Grosklaus WhittyFrancisco Cantรบ and Javier Zamora: a former border guard travels to the US-Mexico border with a former undocumented migrant who crossed the border as a childJennifer Croft`s richly illustrated essay on postcards and graffiti, inspired by Los AngelesBathsheba Demuth visits a whale-hunting station on the Bering Strait, RussiaSinรฉad Gleeson visits Brazil with Clarice LispectorKate Harris with the Tlingit people of the Taku River basin, on the border of British Columbia and AlaskaArtist Roni Horn on IcelandEmmanuel Iduma returns to Lagos in his late father`s footsteps, NigeriaKapka Kassabova among the gatherers of the ancient Mesta River, BulgariaTaran Khan with Afghan migrants in Germany and KabulJessica J. Lee in the alleyways of Taipei, Taiwan, in search of her mother`s homeBen Mauk among the volcanoes of Duterte`s PhilippinesPascale Petit tracks tigers in Paris and IndiaPhotographer James Tylor on the legacy of whaling in Indigenous South Australia, introduced by Dominic Guerrera

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