Granta #171: Dead Friends

The UK's most prestigious literary quarterly brings you prize-winning new fiction, reportage, memoir, poetry and photography from debut writers and established voices.

In Granta 171: Dead Friends, contributors write about their departed mentors and friends.

Featuring Renata Adler on Hannah Arendt, Fernanda Eberstadt on Andy Warhol, Michel Houellebecq on Benoît Duteurtre, Tao Lin on Giancarlo DiTrapano, Aatish Taseer on V.S. Naipaul, as well as autobiography from Yasmina Reza and William Atkins on new developments in our disposal of the dead.

Fiction by Susie Boyt, Joshua Cohen, Marlen Haushofer and Gary Indiana.

Poetry by Anne Carson, Krystyna Dąbrowska, Audun Mortensen and Robert Walser.

And photography by Mark Cawson, aka Smiler, introduced by Iain Sinclair, as well as Ming Smith, with an introduction by Tobi Haslett.