Granta 154

Our 2021 winter issue features Rory Gleeson on an Italian doctor who was at the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak; ** Lindsey Hilsum**, author of the award-winning In Extremis, on cholera in Hutu refugee camps; and photography by ** Gus Palmer** of an Islamic morgue in London, with an introduction by ** Poppy Sebag-Montefiore**. Even more memoir comes from ** Ian Jack** on the toxic slag heaps of Glasgow and the aristocratic lives built on them and ** Vidyan Ravinthiran** on the civil war in Sri Lanka. A photoessay by ** Fergus Thomas** of bareback horse racing in the Colville Reservation is accompanied by an interview with its subject, ** Duane Hall**.

Plus, an excerpt from ** Eva Baltasar**'s Permafrost, translated from the Catalan by ** Julia Sanches**; a new story by ** Paul Dalla Rosa**, previously shortlisted for the 2019 Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award; an extract from the new novel by ** Gwendoline Riley**, author of First Love; fiction by ** Diaa Jubaili**, translated from the Arabic by ** Chip Rossetti**; and fiction set in Philadelphia from ** Dan Shurley**.