Granta 126

We are what we remember, and even when we invent, we write what we remember. Every line is a fragment of something else; that is the great collective project that we call culture. In this issue of Granta, writers remember, or invent, scenes from their own lives and the lives of others.

Ann Beattie
Fiona Benson
Andrew Brown
Bernard Cooper
Lydia Davis
David Gates
Arcelis Girmay
Laura Kasischke
Olivia Laing
Colin McAdam
Lorrie Moore
Norman Rush
Johnny Steinberg
Nathan Thornburgh
Marta Werner
Edmund White
Joy Williams

Introducing:
Katherine Faw Morris

Photography:
Brigitte Grignet
Yuri Kozyrev

Collages:
Janet Malcolm