Receive a free copy of Granta 111: Going Back when you buy Granta 154: I’ve Been Away for a While.

Granta 154: I’ve Been Away for a While deals with absence and presence, immediacy and distance in a time when these concepts are increasingly troubled. Our 2021 winter issue features Rory Gleeson on an Italian doctor who was at the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak; Lindsey Hilsum, author of the award-winning In Extremis, on cholera in Hutu refugee camps; and photography by Gus Palmer of an Islamic morgue in London, with an introduction by Poppy Sebag-Montefiore.

Granta 111: Going Back features fiction from Leila Aboulela and Claire Vaye Watkins, poetry from Nicholas Christopher and Seamus Heaney, and Iris Murdoch’s letters to Raymond Queneau.