Author(s): Sigrid Rausing

Literature | Essay | Photography

Granta's summer issue will be themed around sound, music, silence and war. From established voices to debut novelists, Britain's most prestigious literary magazine brings you the best new writing from around the world.

Featuring non-fiction by Lydia Davis, Peter Englund (tr. Sigrid Rausing) Diana Evans, Wiam El-Tamami, Tabitha Lasley, Adèle Rosenfeld (tr. Jeffrey Zuckerman), Anjan Sundaram, Ed Vulliamy, Ada Wordsworth. Fiction by Nicola Barker and Mazen Maarouf, poetry by Oluwaseun Olayiwola and Martha Sprackland. Photography by James Bennington, Sama Beydoun and Suzie Howell.

Generators, rockets, sirens and the clatter of chess – from war in Ukraine to construction booms in Phnom Penh and Cairo; from music to the experience of living in partial silence, in this issue we try to get at what we hear rather than what we see.

Featuring non-fiction by Lydia Davis, Brian Dillon, Wiam El-Tamami, Peter Englund (tr. Sigrid Rausing), Diana Evans, Tabitha Lasley, Adam Mars-Jones, Maartje Scheltens, Anjan Sundaram, Y-Dang Troeung, Ed Vulliamy and Ada Wordsworth.

Fiction by Nicola Barker, Mazen Maarouf (tr. Mazen Maarouf with Laura Susijn), Adèle Rosenfeld (tr. Jeffrey Zuckerman) and Brywan Washington poetry by Oluwaseun Olayiwola and Martha Sprackland.

Photography by Suzie Howell (introduced by A.K. Blakemore), James Berrington and Sama Beydoun.