GRANTA MAGAZINE SUMMER 2025: The new issue features ‘Badlands’, traversing inhospitable landscapes, from troubled childhoods to drone-infested Ukraine.

Badlands

‘There are badlands of the Earth, but also badlands of memory – whited-out areas that the mind fills in as best it can.’ By Thomas Meaney

Drones and Decolonization

‘Brody was rich in fresh flowers and fresh grief.’ By William T. Vollmann