The captain / Rattawut Lapcharoensap -- The perfect last day of Mr. Sengupta / Siddhartha Mukherjee -- Underland / Robert Macfarlane -- Poem / Charles Simic -- Nuestra Señora de la Asunción / Lina Wolff -- The man at the river / Dave Eggers -- Poem / Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch -- The Hudson River School / David Searcy -- A rationalist in the jungle / Héctor Abad -- Tour guide / Archive of Modern Conflict, with an introduction by Phil Klay -- Barrenland / A Yi -- A walk to Kobe / Haruki Murakami -- Poem / Rachael Boast -- Seestück / Steffi Klenz -- The best hotel / Sonia Faleiro -- Poem / Ellen Bryant Voigt -- Blood money / Miroslav Penkov -- Water has no enemy / Teju Cole.
Summary:
Hari Kunzru travels to Chernobyl, Detroit, and Japan to investigate the phenomenon of disaster tourism. Policeman-turned-detective-turned-writer A Yi describes life as a provincial gumshoe in China. Physician Siddhartha Mukherjee visits a government hospital in New Delhi, where he meets Madha Sengupta, at the end of his life and on the frontiers of medicine. Robert Macfarlane explores the limestone world beneath the Peak District. And Haruki Murakami revisits his walk to Kobe in the aftermath of the 1995 earthquake. In this issue--which includes poems by Charles Simic and Ellen Bryant Voigt, a story by Miroslav Penkov, and non-fiction by David Searcy, Teju Cole, and Hector Abad--GRANTA presents a panoramic view of our shared landscape and investigates our motivations for exploring it. "One's destination is never a place," Henry Miller wrote, "but a new way of seeing things."
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