This issue of Granta is about time and about ghosts – the ghosts of our past selves, the shadows of past injuries, the ghosts of history, the ghosts in the machine.

André Aciman remembers Rome
Ahmet Altan writes from prison in Turkey
Bernard Cooper on Ambien and sleep-eating
Maggie O’Farrell on living with chronic back pain
Vasily Grossman’s Stalingrad, a companion to his epic Life and Fate
Amos Oz in conversation with Shira Hadad
Inigo Thomas on the fall of Singapore

PLUS
NEW FICTION from Anne Carson, Steven Dunn, Sheila Heti, Eugene Lim, Sandra Newman, Maria Reva and Jess Row
POETRY from Cortney Lamar Charleston and Jana Prikryl
PHOTOGRAPHY from Monika Bulaj, with an introduction by Janine di Giovanni