Granta 172: Badlands

Badlands are places that are hard to pass, whether on land or in the mind.

The summer issue of Granta features non-fiction by William T. Vollmann, who reports from drone-infested Ukraine, and Annie Ernaux on the older sister she never knew. With new fiction by Diane Williams, Leopold O'Shea, Natasha Stagg, Brittany Newell, and Stephanie Wambugu, and poetry by Sharon Olds, Paul Muldoon, Nasim Luczaj and Frederick Seidel. Photography by Joel Meyerowitz, introduced by George Prochnik, Cian Oba-Smith, introduced by Julián Herbert, and Sana Badri.