Granta 138

What are the ethics of writing about a place you visit as an outsider? With Granta's long tradition of travel writing in mind, we ask some of the foremost writers of the genre: is travel writing dead?

Tara Bergin, Rana Dasgupta, Geoff Dyer, Eliza Griswold, Mohsin Hamid, Lindsey Hilsum, Colin Thubron, Pico Iyer, Ian Jack, Robert Macfarlane, Wendell Steavenson, Samanth Subramanian and Alexis Wright

Plus:
William Atkins investigates murder on the US-Mexico border
Xan Rice goes back to school in South Africa
David Flusfeder's road trip to Detroit and California in search of his father's past
Xiaolu Guo leaves China's 'semi-tropical south' for the 'solemn and tough north'
Janine di Giovanni's homesickness Amit Chaudhuri returns to the city of his birth

New fiction from Edna O'Brien; poetry by Emily Berry and Zeyar Lynn; photography by Justin Jin, Carl De Keyzer and Andrew McConnell introduced by A Yi and Adam Marek