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The Land In Winter

Madeleine Thien

Madeleine Thien on the occupation of Palestine.

Cats Explain Things to Me | Discoveries

Typo

Take a paws from your busy day for this week’s Discoveries – guest edited by Granta’s very own Typo the cat.

Wendell Steavenson | Is Travel Writing Dead?

Wendell Steavenson

‘Our globalised world of easyJet and Google Translate does not seem to have fostered any greater understanding’

Introduction

Sigrid Rausing

‘Writing about other people doesn’t have to be an exercise of power or a theft of identity.’

Samanth Subramanian | Is Travel Writing Dead?

Samanth Subramanian

‘The first time I ever visited a place I’d read about in a travel book was when my family took a holiday in Hong Kong in 1993.’

Colin Thubron | Is Travel Writing Dead?

Colin Thubron

‘The death of travel – and of the travel book – has been predicted for almost a century.’

Old School

Xan Rice

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

Victim Politics

Ben Rawlence

‘The push and pull of identity politics is the child of slavery and empire.’ Ben Rawlence on empire and the construction of white identity.

The False Lords of Misrule

Peter Pomerantsev

Peter Pomerantsev takes us on a tour of the lewd, crude language of modern politics – from Trump to Putin to Duterte, Milo Yianopoulos, Boris Johnson and more.