William Atkins

William Atkins’s The Immeasurable World won the 2019 Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year award. His latest book is Exiles: Three Island Journeys. He is working on a book about Sizewell and its nuclear power stations.

William Atkins on Granta.com

Art & Photography | Issue 171

The Conservation of Mass: On Resomation

William Atkins

‘If it has ever fallen to you to scatter someone’s ashes, especially those of someone you loved, you might share my sense of the process as tantamount to fly tipping, the stuff resembling nothing so much as cat litter.’

William Atkins on disposing of the dead.

Art & Photography | Issue 167

The Last Freeminers of England

William Atkins & Tereza Červeňová

‘It is a principle of freemining that you leave nothing of value on site, nothing other than the mine itself, which is of value only to a freeminer.’

William Atkins visits the Forest of Dean, with photography by Tereza Červeňová.

Essays & Memoir | Issue 159

On Sizewell C

William Atkins

‘Where do we go, as a country, for power?’

William Atkins on the proposed nuclear power station in Suffolk.

In Conversation | The Online Edition

Interview

Colm Tóibín & William Atkins

‘I think he saw the German spirit as one in which suffering or an appreciation of suffering was essential.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 157

Introduction: On Staying at Home

William Atkins

‘If the following pieces can be said to have an overriding characteristic, it is that they take seriously the experience of being a stranger.’

Guest editor William Atkins introduces the issue.

Essays & Memoir | Issue 157

Goat-Herd Errant: Jim Corbett and the American borderlands

William Atkins

‘The book is a manifesto for the revival of pastoral nomadism – leading goats from pasture to pasture and surviving on their milk and wild plants.’ William Atkins on Jim Corbett’s Goatwalking.