Granta 145

This issue of Granta is about time and about ghosts - the ghosts of our past selves, the shadows of past injuries, the ghosts of history, the ghosts in the machine.



André Aciman remembers Rome

Ahmet Altan on his life sentence

Bernard Cooper on Ambien and sleep-eating

Maggie O'Farrell on damaging her 'sacred' joint

Vasily Grossman's Stalingrad, a companion to his epic Life and Fate

Amos Oz in conversation with Shira Hadad

Inigo Thomas on the fall of Singapore



PLUS

NEW FICTION from Anne Carson, Steven Dunn, Sheila Heti, Eugene Lim, Sandra Newman, Maria Reva and Jess Row

POETRY from Cortney Lamar Charleston and Jana Prikryl

PHOTOGRAPHY from Monika Bulaj, with an introduction by Janine di Giovanni