Xan Rice

Xan Rice is features editor of the New Statesman. His last piece for Granta was ‘The Aviators’, in issue 101.

Xan Rice on Granta.com

‘Apartheid had marked him, as it has marked all of us, in different ways. It made me hyper-aware of colour.’

‘Some men live to fly, and Captain John Wilkinson was one of them.’